ID 587674
Lot 6 | ANNIBALE CARRACCI (BOLOGNA 1560-1609 ROME)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
The Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant Baptist (‘Il Silenzio’)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, with ink number ‘1086’ lower right, watermark figure inscribed in a circle
4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (12.7 x 16.8 cm)
Provenance
Duke of Alva, Spain.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London (L. 2584).
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), London (L. 2710b); by descent to
John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland (1915-2000); Sotheby’s, London, 11 July 1972, lot 59.
with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf.
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, acquired 1976; Sotheby’s, London, 6 July 1987, lot 2.
Literature
Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 27.
P.A. Tomory, The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, Leicester, 1954, no. 46, pl. XXXI.
M. Levey, The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Hampton Court, London, 1964, p. 58, under no. 432.
D. Posner, Annibale Carracci, London, 1971, II, p. 53, under no. 122.
G. Malafarina, L'Opera Completa di Annibale Carracci, Milan, 1976, under no. 114, ill.
Kimbell Art Museum, Handbook of the Collection, Fort Worth, 1981, p. 139, ill.
L. Whitaker and M. Clayton, The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection. Renaissance and Baroque, London 2007, p. 260, under no. 90.
Exhibited
London, Lawrence Gallery. Sixth Exhibition, A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino and Annibale Carracci, collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Late President of the Royal Academy, 1836, no. 79.
Leicester, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Old Master Drawings, 1952, no. 8.
London, P. and D. Colnaghi, Drawings by the Carracci and other Masters from the Collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, 1955, no. 27.
Bologna, Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio, Mostra dei Carracci. I Disegni, 1956, no. 111 (catalogue by D. Mahon).
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, King’s College, The Carracci Drawings and Paintings, 1961, no. 150 (catalogue by Ralph Holland).
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, The Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and other Bolognese Masters, 1972, no. 59.
Düsseldorf, C.G. Boerner, Fünfzig alte Zeichnungen vor 1850, 1972, no. 12, ill.
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