Holy Family, 1634

  • Bonaventura Bisi, Italian, 1612-1662
  • Calcografia Nazionale, Italian

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 13 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (33.7 × 26.4 cm) Sheet: 20 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (51.8 × 39.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S142

Signed, in plate, lower right of image: F. B. B. F.

Drystamp, lower right corner of plate mark: REGIA CALCOGRAFIA DI ROMA

Inscribed, in plate, lower right of image: 1634 Inscribed, lower center: Ill.mo D. D. Equ. Cassiano a Puteo, humanitatis & muni- ficentiae fonti perenni, F. Bonau.a Bisius Min. Conu. gratitud. testim. D. D.

April 1888, purchased from (Calcografia di Roma, Rome, Italy). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bonaventura Bisi, Holy Family, 1634, etching and engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S142.