About the Artwork
Infant Saint John the Baptist
late 16th and early 17th century
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Italian
Italian
Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on buff laid paper
Sheet (octagonal): 7 inches × 7 1/16 inches (17.8 × 17.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR332
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: Fran.co Sucareli | P.r Veneziano Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower left: f.2 No 3574
Provenance
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, Italy). Johann Dominik Bossi and Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (Stuttgart, Germany)
March 27, 1882, Bossi-Beyerlen sale (Stuttgart, Germany). March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). 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. 293-294, no. A39.
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Italian, Infant Saint John the Baptist, late 16th and early 17th century, pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR332.
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