About the Artwork
Adoration of the Magi
after 1546
School of Clovio
1600-1700
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and brown wash with watercolor and touches of gold over a faint underdrawing in black chalk on off-white laid paper
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (42.5 × 29.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.95
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left center: B Inscribed, in pencil, verso, at lower center: 1456 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: No.2 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: Dutch Sch. XVI cen. | Gelozzi of Turin
Stamp, in black, lower right corner: Turin (Lugt 545) Stamp, in brown, lower right corner: William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)
Provenance
Count Gelosi (or Gelozzi) (Turin, Italy). William Esdaile (London, England). June 18, 1840, sold by (Christie's, London, England) no. 71. [as by Pinturrichio.] (Sheaf, London, England). Edward Speelman (London, England). [as Dutch school, ca. 1550] William H. Murphy
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 271, no. A8.
Snow, Nicholas. Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance. Exh.cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, p. 22, no. 47.
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School of Clovio, Adoration of the Magi, after 1546, pen and brown ink and brown wash with watercolor and touches of gold over a faint underdrawing in black chalk on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.95.
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