The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1575

  • Correggio, Italian, ca. 1489-1534
  • Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520-1582

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 inches (26.4 × 21.6 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S519

Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, in reverse, lower right of image: GEORGIVS GHISI | MANTVANVS | FECIT. Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: Lorenzo canaciani | a Santa Catarina | i cale Longa

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)

Giorgio Ghisi; after Correggio, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1575, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S519.