The Madonna suckling the infant Christ

Details

Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
The Madonna suckling the infant Christ
with numbering '69' (?)
black chalk, the outlines incised
6 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (175 x 130 mm.)

Provenance

B. West (L. 419).
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).

Engraved

In reverse by Guido Reni (according to Bartsch, B. 51) or Annibale Carracci (according to Veronike Birke, The Illustrated Bartsch 4005.043).

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Lot Essay

Although Bartsch suggests that the print after the present drawing was etched by Guido Reni, Veronika Birke considers there to be no convincing stylistic similarities with Guido's prints and further notes that the etching is listed as by Annibale in most collections (V. Birke (ed.), The Illustrated Bartsch, 40 (commentary, part 1), Italian Masters of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, New York, 1987, p. 355, no. 4005.043).
An old copy, somewhat larger, of the present drawing is in Stockholm (P. Bjurström, C. Loisel and E. Pilliod, Italian Drawings, Florence, Siena, Modena, Bologna, Stockholm, 2002, no. 1425).

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