Carducho (Vicente, 1576-1638). Holy Family with Saints, circa 1630-1638

Carducho (Vicente, 1576-1638). Holy Family with Saint Catherine, Mary Magdalen and Saint Luke, circa 1630-1638, pen and black ink and brown wash on laid paper, laid down on somewhat rough canvas and retouched with oil, with inscription '2 R ... 14' and small red printed collector's mark of Charles Gasc (Lugt 542) to lower margin, inscription by Charles Gasc to canvas verso in brown ink: 'Cano (Alonzo Alexis) ne a Grenade le 19 Mars 1601 mort le 3 Octobre 1667, élève de Pacheco a Seville, de J. del Castillo et de Herrera. Dessin achete 10,20 a Seville en 1859. H=0m25 L=0m19.6 C. Gasc', additional late 19th century French printed label to verso of frame, giving the artist as:'Murillo (Esteban). Elève de Velazquez. Sainte Famille. Belle esquisse sur toile, qui a ete reproduite en grand', another collector's mark printed in black to lower edge of the frame verso of an anchor and caduceus within a circle, 26 x 21 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 ins), gilt frame

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Provenance: Charles Gasc (circa 1818-after 1869), French collector of Old Master drawings, in collaboration with his brother Paul-Emile Gasc. Purchased in Seville in 1859 (see annotation to verso of the canvas); possibly sold Paris, Delbergue, 17 January 1865 (151 lots); Christie's London, Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, 3 July 2007, lot 74.

Comparable, in composition, the present work is included in the catalogue raisonnaisé of Vicente Carducho: Chenel & Rebollo (2015), 60.3. Composition handling and physiognomy, to Carducho's drawing of The Holy Family with Saints (Chenel & Rebollo, Vicente Carducho, Dibujos, Catalogo razonado, 60.1) now in the Prado, which was made in preparation for a painting now in an English private collection (A.E. Pérez Sánchez and L. Boubli, Dessins Espagnols, Maîtres des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Paris, Louvre, 1991, number 27).

Literature: Chenel & Rebollo, Vicente Carducho, Dibujos, Catalogo razonado, CEEH/National Library of Spain, 2015, 60.3.

See Laurence Lhinares, The Brothers Paul-Emile and Charles Gasc As Collector of Drawings, Master Drawings, volume 52, number 1, 2014, pages 95-110 for further information on Charles Gasc.