About the Artwork
The Holy Family with the Virgin Reading
between 1611 and 1674
Giulio Carpioni (Artist) Italian, 1611-1674 Mattia Cadorin (Publisher) Italian
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 8 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (21.9 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 1/8 inches (22.5 × 15.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S246
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left: Carpioni Veneto | fe.
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Matio Cardorin Forma Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Jules Carpioni | La vierge lisant | B. 5 d | dt
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
October 1887, G. Claus (Dresden, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giulio Carpioni, The Holy Family with the Virgin Reading, between 1611 and 1674, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S246.
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