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The Madonna and Child with Sts Mark and Bernard of Clairvaux c.1550-1600
Black chalk, pen and ink, wash, white heightening, on yellowish-buff tinted paper | 24.2 x 16.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904978
Paolo Farinati (1524-1606)
The Madonna and Child with Sts Mark and Bernard of Clairvaux c.1550-1600
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A drawing of the Madonna and Child, seated in clouds, with St Mark standing to the left, his lion at his feet, and to the right the Cistercian theologian St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), with a small chained demon at his feet. No painting is known, but the drawing is presumably for the same project as RCIN 904979, the same size and compositionally en suite.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Charles II; listed in George III's 'Inventory A,' c.1800-20, p. 117, 'Paolo Farinati'
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk, pen and ink, wash, white heightening, on yellowish-buff tinted paper
Measurements
24.2 x 16.5 cm (sheet of paper)
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