Live Auction 10713Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609)
Lot 21 FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609)

The Virgin reading to the Christ Child

Closed9 December 2015

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GBP 875

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Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609)
The Virgin reading to the Christ Child
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on light brown prepared paper, circular
7½ in. (19 cm.) (diam.)

W. Mayor (L. 2799).
B. Himmelheber (L. 4035), and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Another version of this drawing from the collections of Jonathan Richardson Sr. and Ed. Knight, was engraved by Conrad Metz (1745/49-1827) and published in Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings, second edition, 1798 (see, British Museum, London, inv. 1936,1105.16.1-139). The engraving is in reverse to the present drawing.