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The Virgin Mary with the infant Christ and infant St John the Baptist c.1580-90
Pen and ink and red and black chalk | 41.0 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906957
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/51-1608)
The Virgin Mary with the infant Christ and infant St John the Baptist c.1580-90
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A study for a composition of the Virgin and child with the infant St John.
The Virgin Mary is holding the infant Christ on her lap. Christ reaches out to the infant St John the Baptist who is kneeling besides her. Figino used three different media in this drawing. The legs of the Virgin were constructed using black chalk, whereas he used red chalk for the rest of the figures, finishing them off by using pen and ink for working up the details and the background. The rectangular framing around the figures indicates that Figino might have planned a painting using this composition
For other studies for this composition by Figino in the Royal Collection see RCINs 906942v, 906958r, 906960 v and 906961v.
Inscribed in pen at lower left: No 86 and very faint at lower right: Michel Angelo
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to Ercole Bianchi in 1608; in the collection of Consul Joseph Smith by 1755; purchased by George III in 1762. Recorded in 'Inventory A', p. 117: '110 Mostly sketches after the Old Masters Raphael, Michel Angelo &c.a.'
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink and red and black chalk
Measurements
41.0 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper)
