Philippe Thomassin, Federico Barocci, Jean Turpin
The Visitation
1593
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Philippe Thomassin, Federico Barocci, Jean Turpin
The Visitation
1593
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 391 × 285 mm. (15 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.11792
After the altarpiece by Frederico Barocci in Chiesa Nuova, Rome.
Thomassin was active in Rome after 1585, and worked closely with the publisher Turpin.
see The Age of Caravaggio, exhibition catalogue, New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art: Electa/Rizzoli, 1985, pp. 94-97, esp. p. 97 which mentions the engravings after Barocci's Visitation by Gijsbert van Veen and Philippe Thomassin.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Fe: Bar: Vr: in: / Io. Turpin quesita."; in image, lower right, in plate "1594 / Rome superioru pmissu." Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9040"; lower right in graphite indecipherable
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: horse in circle (Briquet 3874)