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The Holy Family at Table Served by an Angel

c. 1608–1610

Ludovico Carracci

(Italian, 1555–1619)

Italy, 17th century

Pen and gold ink over traces of black chalk(?); framing lines in gold ink

Support: Vellum

Sheet: 9.9 x 9.4 cm (3 7/8 x 3 11/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1972.100

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in gold ink: LOD.C. / F. ; RECTO OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), lower left, in graphite: 39 ; VERSO OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), center, in blue pencil: 30. Lodovico Carracci / Christ with Virgin attended / by an Angel.

Provenance
Count Aldrovandi (according to departmental card). Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt 2710b, upper right, in black ink). Unidentified (Lugt 2725a, verso, now destroyed). [Heim Gallery, Ltd.]
Exhibition history

CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 38, illus. p. 56.

CMA, "Year in Review for 1972" (Feb. 27-Mar. 18, 1973), cma Bulletin 60 (1973), p. 110 no. 147.

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, The Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and Other Bolognese Masters (1972).

Leicester (Eng.) Museums and Art Gallery, The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings (1954), no. 73.

London, Lawrence Gallery, 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. 21.

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

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