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Copy after Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-Rome 1609)
The Pietà c.1600-50
Oil on canvas | 98.0 x 81.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 402896
Red Room, Hillsborough Castle
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The Virgin is shown in full-length, with two grieving putti, supporting the dead Christ. This is a reduced copy of a picture of 1599-1600 by Annibale Carracci in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. It was probably painted in the mid seventeenth century by a northern, conceivably Flemish, painter. From very early on Annibale's original was much copied; in this version the artist has introduced some variations in the background.
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First recorded in Queen Caroline's Dressing Room at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 489) as from the 'School of Vandyke'
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Oil on canvas
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98.0 x 81.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
113.4 x 96.3 x 5.2 cm (frame, external)
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