About the Artwork
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist
1568
Orazio de Santis
active 1568-1584
Italian
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (24.8 × 19.1 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1067
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Pompeius Aquil. Invent- | 1568 Horatius de Sanctis Aquilanus f( )
Stamped in blue, verso: (Lugt Suppl. 2930) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Orazio de Santis, The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist, 1568, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1067.
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