About the Artwork
Holy Family
between mid-18th and early 19th century
Giovanni Battista Cecchi
1748-1807
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over red chalk on buff laid paper, squared for transfer with graphite that has been reinforced with white in some areas
Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 1/8 inches (24.6 × 18.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR272
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: No 272
Provenance
1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to 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, pp. 100-101, no. 44.
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Giovanni Battista Cecchi, Holy Family, between mid-18th and early 19th century, pen and brown ink and gray wash over red chalk on buff laid paper, squared for transfer with graphite that has been reinforced with white in some areas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR272.
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