Charity

Title

Charity

Draughtsman

• Jacob de Wit

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• washing
• graphite drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten mittig (mit der Feder in Braun): [unleserlich, beschnitten] voor Me[unleserlich]
Verso unten mittig Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356); links daneben ein weiterer Stempel, geschwärzt und von einem Klebestreifen verdeckt

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• allegory

Persons Shown

• Caritas

Primary

• 11MM33 Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carità' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues - MM - Virtues triumphant
• 42B742(3) mother and child(3), woman and child(3) (3) (3)
• 31D15(+55) adult woman (+ sitting on the ground)