Artist Italian
Title
  • Study for a Lunette with Three Youths Holding Rings
Date between late 16th and early 17th century
Medium pen and brown ink with brown wash over a preliminary drawing in black chalk, squared with black chalk, on gray-brown laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 5 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (14.4 × 27.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of James E. Scripps
Accession Number 94.3SDR54
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamp, in black, verso, upper left: Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Inscriptions 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.