Saint Gregory the Great, wearing ecclesiastical dress and supported by two angels, is kneeling in prayer; angels above him. Etching by J. Ballin (?) after A. Carracci, 16--.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1699]

1 print : etching ; image 34.3 x 21.5 cm

A. Carace jn. pinx. ; Io. Ballin del. sculp.

The name of the draftsman and etcher is indistinct. Possibly Bailliu, but the forename of the artist so called was Peter, not Johan

G. Malafarina, L'opera completa di Annibale Carracci, Milan 1976, p. 121, no. 122 (mentions engraving by J. Frey after the same painting, but not the present print)

Evelina Borea, 'Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori' in: Les Carrache et les décors profanes. Actes du colloque de Rome (2-4 octobre 1986), Rome: École Française de Rome, 1988. pp. 521-555 (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 106), p. 551 ("Jacob Frey sceglieva più tardi, nel 1733 la 'Messa di S. Gregorio' al Celio, che altri prima aveva mediocremente inciso, e che egli interpreta da grande maestro ...")

Wellcome Collection 574841i

After an altarpiece in the same direction formerly in the Cappella Salviati in the church of S. Gregorio al Celio in Rome. The painting passed to Bridgewater House in London, where it was destroyed in World War II