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Adoration of the Christ Child

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), over traces of red chalk, on lunette-shaped tan laid paper, squared in red chalk and pen and brown ink, laid down on ivory laid card.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), over traces of red chalk, on lunette-shaped tan laid paper, squared in red chalk and pen and brown ink, laid down on ivory laid card.

Date:

1580/1600

Artist:

Filippo Bellini or circle of
Italian, c. 1550-1603

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Filippo Bellini

Title

Adoration of the Christ Child

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1580–1600

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), over traces of red chalk, on lunette-shaped tan laid paper, squared in red chalk and pen and brown ink, laid down on ivory laid card

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "84"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "Guido Reni / ...Guercino [?]"

Dimensions

67 × 35.3 cm (26 7/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.5688

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