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Description: Laid down. Inscribed at lower centre in black chalk: "L. Carracci (?)" 

Provenance: Prince Charles de Ligne (Bartsch 1794, p. 76, no 2 "Sebastian Ricci") ; Herzog Albert von Sachsen-Teschen ; Count J.G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a) ; Gift to the museum in 1973.

The closest parallels to this sheet are four small sketches in the Correr that Pallucchini and Pignatti both consider were prepared as compositional models for presentation to a patron. We know of one such painting, the "Adoration of the Shepherds", now in the collection of Count Seilern who, however, considers that the sketches more likely served as models for engravings - probably in fact for book illustrations - rather than for paintings.

This applies still more to our sheet, where it is just the emphasis on the outlines which suggests that they were done after a painting and are intended for transfer.

As Alice Binion has pointed out (in a letter), our drawing was made after Annibale Carracci´s painting, preserved at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna, or, more likely, after the engraving that L. Aureli made of the painting.

She does not believe the drawing to be by Pittoni, but possibly by someone in his workshop, such as Anton Kern. it is close in technique to some drawings she considers irrefutably by Kern, such as nos. 5420 and 5461 at the Correr.

One of the sheets in the Correr series seems like a less elaborate and developed version of the "Adoration of the Kings" in SS Nazaro e Celso, Brescia, which was executed in 1739-40. Presumably the group can therefore be dated to the 1730s. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 209]

Titel (sv): Madonnan med barnet omgiven av helgon
Titel (en): The Virgin with the Christ Child and John the Baptist, Flanked by St. Catherine and St.John the Evangelist

Title (sv): Madonnan med barnet omgiven av helgon
Title (en): The Virgin with the Christ Child and John the Baptist, Flanked by St. Catherine and St.John the Evangelist