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    Two Studies for the Infant Virgin and Detail of Foot

    TitleTwo Studies for the Infant Virgin and Detail of Foot
  • Technique/ MaterialRed chalk, pen and brown ink on paper
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 17,1 x 10,8 cm
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Annibale Carracci, Italian, born 1560, dead 1609
  • CategoryDrawings, Free-hand drawings
  • ClassificationDrawing
  • Geographical originItalien
  • Inventory No.NMH 988/1863
  • AcquisitionÖvertagande 1866 från Kongl. Museum
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    Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 831 (Sparre) and 57 (struck out)

    Carel van Tuyll has identified this drawing as a preliminary study for the Virgin in the "Nativity of the Virgin" in the Louvre (note on the mount). A study in Windsor Castle contains a very similar representation of the Virgin held in the arms of a woman. The Windsor sheet also contains studies for the Farnese Gallery. Two more drawings for the painting are in the Louvre. Both historic and stylistic evidence point to a date of about 1599. The painting was originally in the Basilica of the Santa Casa in Loreto. It was executed for Cesare d'Este. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1401]