Virgin Suckling the Child, between 1560 and 1632

  • Annibale Carracci, Italian, 1560-1609
  • Raphael Sadeler I, Netherlandish, 1560-1632
  • Raphael Sadeler I, Netherlandish, 1560-1632

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 5 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (13.7 × 9.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1060

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)]

Inscribed, in plate below image: ECCE TV PVLCHER ES DILECTE MI, ET | DECORVS, LECTVLVS NOSTER FLORIDVS EST. | Cant. 1. Inscribed, bottom center of plate: Anibal, Carraz. inuent Raphael Sadeler Sculpsit. et excudit.

June 1885, N. C. Perkins. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Raphael Sadeler I; after Annibale Carracci, Virgin Suckling the Child, between 1560 and 1632, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1060.