Virgin and Child with Saint John

between 1610 and 1615

Bartolomeo Schidone Italian, 1578-1615

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About the Artwork

Title Virgin and Child with Saint John

Artwork Date between 1610 and 1615

Artist Bartolomeo Schidone

Life Dates 1578-1615

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash on dark buff laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (15.6 × 13 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR78

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right corner: R Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left corner: 18003 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, across upper quarter: Antoine de Allegris called Corregio [sic] born in 1494 à Corrège dans le Modénois died in 1534 at | the age of 40. He was modest in his manners, amiable & charitable. The manner of his Death | was curious: It was occasioned by a fever wch he caught by walking four leauges under a | burning sun with the profits of one of his pictures wch had been paid him in Copper mo- | ney & wch his joy & anxiety to relieve the distresses of his Parents would neither allow him to send nor to delay. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, following previous inscription: Of the Lombard School Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower right corner: £ 10.10.0 [canceled with pencil] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right corner: £ 3.3-0 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center left edge: 422 [underscored]

Marks Stamp, in black, lower right: Richardson (Lugt 2170)

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (London, England). possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, England). March 4-7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 820

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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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 82-83, no. 32.

Popham, A.E. Correggio's Drawings. London, 1957, p. 176, A21 (as by a seventeenth century artist).

Scheyer, Ernst. Bulletin of the DIA 10 (1935-36): p. 106 (as by Corregio).

Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Corregio." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): pp. 13-14.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

attributed to Bartolomeo Schidone, Virgin and Child with Saint John, between 1610 and 1615, pen and brown ink and brown wash on dark buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR78.