Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as the Virgin Immaculate breast-feeding the Christ Child, with angels. Engraving after Agostino Carracci after J. Ligozzi.
- Ligozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626.
- Date:
- 1590-1599
- Reference:
- 2814407i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
"The Ligozzi engraving was extremely popular, as witnessed by the numerous copies after it. The copy (copy no. 1) in reverse, which Bartsch believed could possibly be the original, may be a copy by Agostino made to meet the demand for the composition."--DeGrazia Bohlin, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
1590-1599
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 19 x 14.2 cm
Lettering
Beatus venter qui te portavit et ubera quae suxisti. Jacobus Ligotius inventor. Augustinus Caracius
The lettering in the border around the image is the Vulgate translation of Luke 11.27 (King James version "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked"). The present version (DeGrazia Bohlin's copy 3) is the only one with this lettering
References note
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1818, vol. 18, pp. 58-59, Agostino no. 34 ("Cette estampe est une des plus parfaites d'Aug. Carrache, tant pour le dessein que pour la gravure")
Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonné, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979, pp. 262-263, Agostino no. 150, copy 3
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2814407i
Type/Technique
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores