Study for the Madonna in Prado Nativity

between mid-16th and early 17th century

Federico Barocci Italian, 1535-1612

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About the Artwork

Title Study for the Madonna in Prado Nativity

Artwork Date between mid-16th and early 17th century

Artist Federico Barocci

Life Dates 1535-1612

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Black and white chalk over incised outlines of figure and draperies, squared for transfer in black chalk, on pale green-gray paper

Dimensions Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 15/16 inches (20.6 × 17.6 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.139

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: 39 Inscribed, in pencil, along upper edge, verso: [indecipherable, erased] Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: Barocci | Studi für di | Natività in Prado | (I. Entwurf) | Di Pietro, Disegni | Sconoscuti di Federico Barocci Firenze 1913 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: 78975 WJph

Provenance

1913, art market (Florence, Italy);
Hermann Voss (Berlin, Germany);
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bertelà, Giovanna Gaeta. Designi di Federico Barossi. Exh. cat., Florence, 1975, p. 81, no. 88.

Emiliani, Andrea. Federico Barocci (Urbino 1535-1612). Bologna, 1985, vol. 2: pp. 320, 323 (fig. 687)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 32-33, no. 2.

Olsen, Harald. Federico Barocci. Copenhagen, 1962, p. 197.

Pillsbury, Edmund P. and Louise S. Richards. The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery and Cleveland Museum

of Art. New Haven and Cleveland, 1978, no. 63 (pl. 63).

Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Corregio." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): no. 41.

Smith, Graham. "Two Drawings by Federico Barocci." Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 2/3 (1973) pp. 88-90 (fig. 3).

Voss, Herman. Ziechnungen der Italien Schen Spatrenaissance. Munich, 1928, p. 55 (pl. 20).

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 26-27, cat. 23 (ill.).

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Federico Barocci, Study for the Madonna in Prado Nativity, between mid-16th and early 17th century, black and white chalk over incised outlines of figure and draperies, squared for transfer in black chalk, on pale green-gray paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.139.