About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John
between 1754 and 1815
Carlo Alberto Baratta
1754-1815
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on buff laid paper washed with red chalk
Sheet: 5 11/16 × 3 1/2 inches (14.4 × 8.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James E. Scripps
94.3SDR9.2
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: Baratta Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower right: F.i.R. Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left, center: [9"?] | A2577b Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 8 [indecipherable, under hinge]
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 92d (as by L. [Laurens] Barata)
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1894-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, p. 88, no. 35 (as Holy Family with the Infant Saint John).
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Carlo Alberto Baratta, Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John, between 1754 and 1815, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on buff laid paper washed with red chalk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR9.2.
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