FJK 026
Carracci Ludovico (Italian, Bologna 1555–1619 Bologna)
The Apostles at the Tomb of the Virgin
ca. 1605-1609
10 15/16 × 5 9/32 in. (278 × 134 mm)
Medium
Pen, brown ink and wash heightened with gold ink on paper prepared with tempera laid down on antique laid paper
Collector’s mark “Lors Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere” bottom right (Lugt 2710b)
Certificate
Certificate from Dr. Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth,Texas, dated January 23, 1997
Origin
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar Collection (1762-1834), Lille (Lugt 2568)
Sir Thomas Lawrence Collection (1769-1830), London (Lugt 2445)
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Collection (1800-1857), London
Ellesmere Collection (by descent)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 1972, no. 15
Private Collection, London
Sale, Phillips, London, July 3, 1996, no. 120
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5377
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
Bridgewater House, London, Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings, 1898, no. 93.
BODMER Heinrich, Ludovico Carracci, Burg bei Magdeburg, 1939, p. 150, no. 58.
TOMORY P.A., The Ellesmere Collection, Leicester Museum, 1954, no. 5.
MAHON Denis, Mostra dei Carracci Disegni, Bologne, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, 1956, mentioned under no. 20.
BACOU Roseline, Dessins des Carrache, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1961, mentioned under no. 11.
HOLLAND Ralph, The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961, no. 19.
STOCK Julien, POUNCEY Philip, Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and other Bolognese Masters collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 1972, no. 15.
BOHN Babette, The Drawings of Ludovico Carracci, Ph. D. Columbia University, 1982, no. 139.
FEIGENBAUM Gail, Ludovico Carracci. A Study of his Later Career and a Catalogue of his Paintings, Ph. D. Princeton University, Ann Arbor, 1984, mentioned under no. 114J.
LEGRAND Catherine, Le dessin à Bologne 1580-1620. La réforme des trois Carracci, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1994, mentioned under no. 18.
DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 397, ill.
RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 397, ill.
BOHN Babette, Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004, pp. 360, 361, no. 213, ill.
Exhibitions
London, Lawrence Gallery, A Catalogue of one hundred original drawings by Carraci, 1836, no. 25.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 112, no. 40, color ill. p. 113.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, Addendum no. 7 color ill.
Notes
Notes (1)
Will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of the drawings by Ludovico Carracci in preparation under the direction of Dr. Babette Bohn.
Notes (2)
From 1605 to 1609, Ludovico executed together with Camillo Procaccini, a painter from Bologna and his rival during his youth who had moved to Milan, the decoration of the choir of the Duomo of Piacenza, devoted to the life of the Virgin. Only the frescoes and the two large paintings, Funeral of the Virgin and The Apostles at the Tomb of the Virgin, remain from this decoration dismantled in the early nineteenth century, now at the National Gallery in Parma (see Catherine Legrand, 1994, op. cit. p. 32.
Another overall study, most likely made before the present drawing, is preserved in the Drawings Department at the Louvre Museum, Paris, Acc. no. 7692 (see Heinrich Bodmer, 1939, op. cit. pl. 131).
Request for information/loan
The Jan Krugier Foundation is devoted to increasing the impact of the collection of drawings through regular loans to major exhibitions. Loan applications should include a complete presentation of the project.