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Saint Roch Distributing Alms to the Poor, 1610

  • Annibale Carracci, Italian, 1560-1609
  • Guido Reni, Italian, 1575-1642

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 11 3/8 × 18 1/8 inches (28.9 × 46 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S994

Watermark, outlined in pencil, verso: [heart shape containing the letters PF]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: Anibal Car. inuent. Inscribed, lower center: P. Stephanonius formis Cum Privilegio Inscribed, lower right: 1610 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [artist's name and numeric notations]

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)

Guido Reni; after Annibale Carracci, Saint Roch Distributing Alms to the Poor, 1610, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S994.