About the Artwork
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
1575
Correggio (Artist) Italian, ca. 1489-1534 Giorgio Ghisi (Artist) Italian, 1520-1582
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 inches (26.4 × 21.6 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S519
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, in reverse, lower right of image: GEORGIVS GHISI | MANTVANVS | FECIT. Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: Lorenzo canaciani | a Santa Catarina | i cale Longa
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad)Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giorgio Ghisi; after Correggio, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1575, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S519.
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