Study for a Lunette with Three Youths Holding Rings, between late 16th and early 17th century

  • Italian

Pen and brown ink with brown wash over a preliminary drawing in black chalk, squared with black chalk, on gray-brown laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (14.4 × 27.1 cm)

Gift of James E. Scripps

94.3SDR54

Stamp, in black, verso, upper left: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, along lower edge: [indecipherable, partially cut off] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: Carrache

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association (New York, New York, USA) no. 102A (as by Annibale Carracci)

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1894-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 293, no. A38.

Italian, Study for a Lunette with Three Youths Holding Rings, between late 16th and early 17th century, pen and brown ink with brown wash over a preliminary drawing in black chalk, squared with black chalk, on gray-brown laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR54.