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The Holy Family

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The Holy Family
ArtistItalian, 1532–1577
CultureItalian
Titles
  • The Holy Family
Datec. 1570–77
MediumPen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, incised, pricked and squared in red chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 7/16 × 16 15/16 in. (29 × 43 cm)
 Mat: 13 × 18 7/8 in. (33 × 47.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment and the Vaughn Foundation Fund
Object number2025.709
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceCarlo Lucido (20th and 21st centuries, L. 3269) [1]; Private collection, France; [Galerie Nathalie Motte Masselink, Paris, 2025]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.

[1] This stamp is believed to belong to Carlo Lucido, about whom we have no information. His mark first appears in a Christie’s sale catalog (March 17, 2005) and more than 20 drawings bear this mark.
Exhibition HistoryNone known.
Published References None known. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, bottom right corner: 35
Verso: Inscribed in pen and black ink, center: orazio samachino cremonese
Recto: Collector’s stamp in black ink, bottom right corner: [L. 3269, Carlo Lucido: words of drawing and conservation surrounding the initials C and L]
Recto: Watermark, center: Lily (Fleur-de-lis) in a circle [Similar to Piccard Vol. 13 #916]
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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