Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis (1585): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis (1585) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547–1626).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Printed from four blocks in brown, this chiaroscuro woodcut shows the Virgin and Child flanked by the infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis at right. Saint Catherine of Siena takes place on the left, and holds a flower.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis
• Date: 1585
• Creator attribution: Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547–1626)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Print
• Technique: chiaroscuro woodcut
• Collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1960.19

A detail from the museum

The CMA owns another version of this chiaroscuro woodcut, which differs in the color of the ink used to print it (1949.81).

Collection credit

Fortieth Anniversary Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of William Mathewson Milliken

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William Mathewson. “Gifts to the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 371–383.
• Goldfarb, Hilliard T. “Chiaroscuro Woodcut Technique and Andrea Andreani.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (November 1981): 307–330.

View the collection record

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