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Two of the saints are embracing in the foreground; the Virgin above, four other saints on each side, standing; Study for the picture in the Gallery of the Grand Duke of Tuscany; Black chalk on brown paper; Italian; Late 15th century - 1517.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce</u>. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward-Jackson, Peter, <u>Italian Drawings. Volume I. 14th-16th century</u>, London, 1979, p. 36\r\n\t\r\nThe following is the full text of the entry:\r\n\r\nBARTOLOMMEO, FRA <i>known as</i> Baccio della Porta (1472-1517)\r\n\n39  \r\nThe Virgin and Child on a dais, within an apse, surrounded by saints, with St Francis and St Dominic embracing in the foreground \r\nBlack chalk \r\n8 x 6 1/8 (203 x 155) \t    Dyce 150 \r\n\r\nPROVENANCE Dyce Bequest 1869 \r\n\r\nLITERATURE <i>Dyce Catalogue </i>no. 150 (as by Fra Bartolommeo); Reitlinger, p. 8, no. 10 (same attribution)\n\r\nThere are three other versions of this design: (a) in the British Museum (Cracherode Collection, no. F.f.1-3; Photo. Gernsheim, no. 252; BB. 1938, no. 1817, where it is ascribed to Fra Paolino). (b) in the Uffizi (no. 408. Photo. Gernsheim, no. 2370; BB. 1938, no. 355, 'an early stage, perhaps, for the Louvre Marriage of St Catherine'). (c) in the Musée Wicar at Lille (Pluchart, <i>Musée Wicar</i>, no. 43; Photo. Gernsheim, no. 16673; BB. 1938, no. 398, 'sketch for the Louvre Marriage of St Catherine'). The connection between those four drawings and the Louvre Marriage of St Catherine is hardly close enough to justify Berenson's suggestion that two of them are sketches for the painting. The painting is illustrated in F. Knapp, <i>Fra Bartolommeo della Porta</i>, Halle, 1903, p. 103, pl. 49, and in H. von der Gabelentz, <i>Fra Bartolommeo</i>, Leipzig, 1922, 1, pl. 10. The <i>Dyce Catalogue</i> associates our drawing with the painting in the Uffizi showing the Virgin and Child with St Anne behind and above them (Knapp, <i>op. cit.,</i> p. 114, pl. 52). 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