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Holy Family with St John the Baptist and angelsMenzocchi, Francesco (Vecchio di San Bernardo) (draughtsman) | |
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Title/s | Holy Family with St John the Baptist and angels |
Maker/s | Menzocchi, Francesco (Vecchio di San Bernardo) (draughtsman) [ULAN info: Italian artist, c.1502-1584] |
Category |
drawing |
Name | drawing |
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Production Notes | a modello for the painting of the same subject by Menzocchi in the Bob Jones University collection, Granville, North Carolina (no. P.58.123), which he has dated on stylistic grounds to the 1560's (Stephen Pepper) |
Technique Description | point of the brush, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on traces of black chalk, on paper |
Dimensions |
height: 267
mm |
Provenance | given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1991 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Zaccario Sagredo, Venice; de Boissieu; P. Scarpa (cf. Lugt 2103a); sale, Sotheby's, 1 July 1991, lot 18 (as Emidian); with Kate Ganz from whom bought by the Friends of the FitzwilliamWith a contribution from Kate Ganz. |
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Material/s |
brown ink (medium) |
Accession Number | PD.39-1991 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) |
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