Gravû d'apres le tableau d'Annibal Carrache, qui est de cette mesme grandeur, dans le Cabinet du Roy.
Annibal Carracci pinxit. Steph. Picart Rom.us sculps. 1681.
Engraving. 425 x 480mm (16¾ x 19"). Tears in inscription area taped, creasing. Time staining in margins.
Christ sleeps in the arms of the Virgin Mary, who raises her finger to her lips to prevent the young St John waking the baby. This gesture has given the picture the nickname of 'The Silence'. In 1671 the painting copied by Etienne Picart was acquired for Louis XIV as the work of Annibale Carracci. Now in the Louvre (Louvre Inv.195), it has been reattributed to Domenichino, c.1605, as a contemporary copy of Carracci's original, once in the Farnese Collection but bought by George III in 1766 and now in the Royal Collection Trust.
[Ref: 57932] £140.00
Engraving. 425 x 480mm (16¾ x 19"). Tears in inscription area taped, creasing. Time staining in margins.
Christ sleeps in the arms of the Virgin Mary, who raises her finger to her lips to prevent the young St John waking the baby. This gesture has given the picture the nickname of 'The Silence'. In 1671 the painting copied by Etienne Picart was acquired for Louis XIV as the work of Annibale Carracci. Now in the Louvre (Louvre Inv.195), it has been reattributed to Domenichino, c.1605, as a contemporary copy of Carracci's original, once in the Farnese Collection but bought by George III in 1766 and now in the Royal Collection Trust.
[Ref: 57932] £140.00