The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy

Medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 6 x 4 7/16in. (15.3 x 11.3cm)
Annotated on paper support on verso, in blue crayon, "It5 [or s] - A13" along upper left border; below, "Moretto da Brescia"; at center, in graphite, "107" (crossed out in graphite); in blue crayon, "219." Along bottom border, in brown crayon, "219," and, in graphite, "219 (192)" [?], crossed out in graphite.

Note: Saint Agatha on the left holds a cooking fork associated with witchcraft at this time

Nicola Grassi (Italian, Formeaso before 1682–ca. 1750 Turin (?))

Date: 1682–1750

The Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338913Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
James Jackson Jarves; Cornelius Vanderbilt (American)

Coles Gallery, 8: Tapestries and Paintings, Malachites, Vases, etc.; Drawings by Old Masters, Etchings, Photographs, and Tapestries in Gallery 4, Main Hall. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hand-book, no. 8, New York, 1895, cat. no. 219, p. 17.

Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 78, fig. no. 78, pp. 91-92, ill.