The Birth of the Virgin

Unknown Spanish, Spanish

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18th century

Graphite on laid paper

Overall: 4 3/8 × 6 in. (11.1 × 15.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, through Friends of the Dartmouth Library

D.962.88.5

Geography

Place Made: Spain, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, on verso: Valdes

Provenance

Collection of Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), London,19330s-1940s, sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, 1952; sold to Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986), New York art dealer, date unknown; sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York, October 1962; given to present collection, 1962.

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