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The Institution of the Eucharist: PD.1-2002

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Institution of the Eucharist

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Barocci, Federico

Entities

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Notes

History note: Sir Peter Lely [Lugt 2092]; the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House; Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, lot 381; bought by Private Treaty sale from a British collector through Sotheby's

Legal notes

From the Gow fund, with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund, supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, 2002.

Measurements and weight

Height: 515 mm
Width: 355 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2002) by Sotheby's

Dating

1600s
Production date: circa AD 1603

School or Style

Italian
School of Urbino

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown wash
White bodycolour
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( laid down)

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk, heightened in white, with selected areas worked up in grisaille oil, squared in black chalk, on paper, laid down on a ?contemporary sheet of paper, laid down on an eighteenth century album leaf, laid down on a nineteenth century mount
Grisaille

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.1-2002
Primary reference Number: 40890
Lugt: 2092

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 October 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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