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The murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra

Maker

After
(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

The murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra

Medium

Pen and and point of brush and brown ink over graphite, with brown ink framing lines, on laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 33.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.10.2

Mode of Acquisition

Unknown, gift, 1948

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (1847-1913) [his bookplate on inside cover]; by descent to David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975); by whom presented to The Courtauld, 13 August 1948

Literature

Béguin, Sylvie, Jean Guillaume and Alan Roy, La galerie d’Ulysse à Fontainebleau, Paris, 1985
p. 217, under no. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: right centre: bunch of grapes (stack with five grapes at widest, stem is a horse-shoe shape arched exactly over the grapes but at a removed distance from their top, and with a v-shaped extension from the top as well; sits between and touching chain lines 20.48 mm wide, is 45.38 mm high). Historic support, verso, right centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (narrow shield, with straight edges).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink: 8 TVT.

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