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Elisabetta Sirani

The Healing of the Possessed Boy in a Procession of the Volto Santo, c. 1659

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown washes heightened with white over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.9 x 23.9 cm (5 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Sydney J. Freedberg, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.102.1

Artists / Makers

Elisabetta Sirani (artist) Italian, 1638 - 1665

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: 50 20

Provenance

(sale, London, Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, 7 December 1976, lot 11); Professor Sydney J. Freedburg, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Freedberg, Sydney J., Professor

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 21.

2021: By Her Hand: Artemesia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2021-2022.

2021: By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2021 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2004: Modesti, Adelina. Elisabetta SIrani: Una virtuosa del Seicento bolognese. Bologna, 2004: 185, 186, fig. 101.

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