The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis

1585

Andrea Andreani

(Italian, about 1558–1610)

after Jacopo Ligozzi

(Italian, 1547–1626)
Italy, 16th century
chiaroscuro woodcut
Fortieth Anniversary Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of William Mathewson Milliken 1960.19
Catalogue raisonné: Bartsch XII.67.27
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The CMA owns another version of this chiaroscuro woodcut, which differs in the color of the ink used to print it (1949.81).

Description

Printed from four blocks in brown, this chiaroscuro woodcut shows the Virgin and Child flanked by the infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis at right. Saint Catherine of Siena takes place on the left, and holds a flower.
  • Milliken, William Mathewson. “Gifts to the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 371–383. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 381 www.jstor.org
    Goldfarb, Hilliard T. “Chiaroscuro Woodcut Technique and Andrea Andreani.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (November 1981): 307–330. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 325-326, fig. 33 www.jstor.org
  • A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).
    Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
    Portrait of Madonna. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (November 15-December 31, 1960).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1960.19