The letter ‘F’ before the name ‘Sebastianus’ in the signature shows that this work was painted in or after the year 1531, when Sebastiano del Piombo (‘Sebastiano of the Seal’) became the bearer of the papal seal and adopted the honorific title associated with that role: frate (friar). The painting of the lady’s dress and hair are well preserved although the flesh areas are now damaged and have a greyish appearance.

oil on canvas
92.4 × 75.3 cm
Signed]]> https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sebastiano-del-piombo-portrait-of-a-lady-with-the-attributes-of-saint-agatha
The Reverend William Holwell Carr
Holwell Carr Bequest, 1831
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/people/the-reverend-william-holwell-carr]]> S. Agatha virgo et martyr (title on object)]]> collector's mark: Lugt 2228
DescriptionDe rijkgeklede Agatha is aan een pilaar gebonden. Twee mannen snijden haar borsten af met tangen. Op de voorgrond stookt een man met een blaasbalg het vuur op in een schaal. In de marge een vijfregelig onderschrift in het Latijn.

Materialpaper
Techniqueengraving
Measurementsheight 255 mm × width 185 mm]]> print maker: Antonie Wierix (II)
after drawing by: Jan van der Straet (mentioned on object)
Philips Galle (mentioned on object)]]> http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.332082]]> collector's mark: Lugt 240
DescriptionBlad met vier ovale voorstellingen, elk met opschrift en datum in het Latijn: linksboven de Heilige Agatha wier borsten door een beul worden afgesneden, rechtsboven de Heilige Dorothea gebonden aan een paal, rechtsonder de Heilige Romuald met een wandelstok en een boek in de handen, linksonder de Heilige Paulus van Verdun met een palmtak in de hand. Deze prent is onderdeel van een serie prenten met voorstellingen van de heiligen en de christelijke feestdagen van het jaar. Er zijn steeds vier scènes van één plaat op één blad gedrukt. Inclusief bijbehorend titelblad en frontispice gaat het in totaal om 124 platen (490 voorstellingen). De drie platen met de laatste 12 scènes (de veranderlijke christelijke feestdagen) zijn in de derde staat versneden tot 12 kleine plaatjes, en met een apart titelblad uitgegeven.


Materialpaper
Techniqueetching
Measurementsheight 210 mm × width 122 mm

Waarschijnlijk zijn de afbeeldingen in de prentserie 'Alle heiligen en de christelijke feestdagen van het jaar' ooit bedoeld geweest als illustraties bij een hagiografie; ze zijn echter nooit in die context verschenen. Klinkert, C.]]> print maker: Jacques Callot
after own design by: Jacques Callot
publisher: Israël Henriet (mentioned on object)]]> publisher: Paris]]> http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.40543]]> Meaume 314-1(2)
Remark: nrs. 43-46
Lieure 848-2(2)
Lieure 849-2(2)
Lieure 850-2(2)
Lieure 851-2(2)]]> DIMENSIONS 55 3/4 x 43 1/8 in. (141.6 x 109.5 cm) frame: 69 × 56 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (175.3 × 144.1 × 11.4 cm)]]> https://www.artsbma.org/collection/enthroned-madonna-and-christ-child-with-angels-saints-paula-and-agatha/
PROVENANCE John Watkins Brett (1805-1863), London, by 1857; his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, April 5-18, 1864, no. 820, as Filippo Lippi; with P & D Colnaghi, London [see note 1]. John Francis Austen (1817-1893), London, by 1877; by descent to Mrs. Austen, London; by descent to John Francis Austen, Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent; auctioned by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 18, 1921, 19 no. 82, as Filippo Lippi [unsold]; remained with Trustees of Austen Estate [see note 2]; auctioned by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 10, 1931, p. 15, no. 64, as Filippo Lippi; purchased by Francis Howard, London [see note 3]. With Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence; purchased by Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, June 7, 1954 as Master of the Stratonice Cassone; on loan to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1959; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1961]]> 2. Ibid.
3. According to an annotation in an auction catalogue at The Frick Art Reference Library. See object file.
]]> Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Signed in lower centre of impression: "Ioan. Sadl. excu.". Titled in Latin in lower margin: "S. Agatha".]]> After: Giulio Clovio
Published by: Jan Sadeler I]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Ii-5-153]]> Acquisitioned 1753]]> Height: Height: 277 millimetres (trimmed) (trimmed)
Width: Width: 202 millimetres]]> Engraving
Height: Height: 253 millimetres
Width: Width: 184 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered in cartouche within image: 'S. AGATHA VIRGO / ET MARTYR.' Lettered below image: 'VENERABILI AC RELIGIOSAE VIRGINI PRVDENTIAE...PHILIPPVS GALLEAUS, IN AEMVLATIONIS, AD EIVSDEM / SANCTAE PIETATEM ET VIRTVTES STIMVLVM LVBENS DEDICAT.']]> Print made by: Antonius Wierix
Published by: Philips Galle]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1957-0413-224
Previous owner/ex-collection: Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland (Courtier. In 1750 succeeded her father, Algernon Seymour as Baroness Percy while her husband, Sir Hugh Smithson (q.v.) succeeded him as Earl of Northumberland and assumed the name Percy; in 1766, he was created Duke of Northumberland.)
for more items that she owned: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG158120
acquisitioned 1957]]> Published in: Antwerp (city)
Europe: Belgium: Flemish Region: Antwerp (province): Antwerp (city)]]> Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (752)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1316.I)]]> Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 64 millimetres
Width: Width: 38 millimetres
Inscription content: Collector's initials 'JB' in pen and ink on verso (Lugt 1419)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_H-1-125
Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (with Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC)
Previous owner/ex-collection: John Barnard (L.1420)
acquisitioned 1799]]> Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.142.170)
Delaborde 1888 / Marc-Antoine Raimondi: Etude Historique et Critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné des oeuvres du maitre (128.72)]]> Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription on the verso, in pencil, mentioning a sale (177?, no.15-4) at which the print was probably sold
NOTE: the whole breasts where in another edition the breasts are removed
"The artist did not fully understand Marcantonio’s print and in his engraving omitted to emphasize St Agatha’s cut breasts."]]> Delaborde 1888 / Marc-Antoine Raimondi: Etude Historique et Critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné des oeuvres du maitre (128.72)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_H-1-124
Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (with Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC)
Previous owner/ex-collection: Jonathan Blackburne (with Blackburne’s annotation on verso in pencil ‘[...] sale – 17[...] / N°. 15 – 4’)]]> Series: Series: The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters]]> Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 271 millimetres
Width: Width: 214 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered in lower margin with title and production details: "Engraved by L. Stocks" and "From the original Picture by Sebastiano del Piombo in / The National Gallery / No.63" and "Jones & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London.".
After Sebastiano del Piombo's "Portrait of a lady with the attributes of Saint Agatha" of c. 1540 in the National Gallery (inv. NG 24), thought at the time to represent Giulia Gonzaga.]]> Print made by: Lumb Stocks
Published by: Jones & Co]]> Published in: London (England)
Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1214-66
Purchased from: Willis & Sotheran]]> Location: Chiesa dei Santi del Crocifisso, Borgo]]> ]]>