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Triumph of Neptune (recto)

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1649-1705

Title

Triumph of Neptune (recto)

Date of Production

1697

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on blue-prepared laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partially trimmed away (recto), with border support added on the verso and sketches in black chalk, pen and brown ink and grey wash

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 42.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1076

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.7); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Kunze, Matthias. Daniel Seiter (1647-1705) : Die Zeichnungen (Salzburg: Salzburger Barockmuseum, 1997)
pp.128-129

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to preparation of paper.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink, artist’s hand, unclear: “H / Eniode Theme[?] 1697”. Verso: upper right, red chalk: “929” upper right, brown ink: “7012”; centre, black chalk, underlined, unclear: “Rono / [...] // [?]”; left centre edge, brown ink, hidden under borders and now illegible; lower left, brown ink, crossed through in brown ink: “caracce”; lower left, black chalk: “Ulinelli”; lower right, brown ink: “Daniel Saiter / [paraphe] [...] col Paquale //”; lower left, graphite, Witt number: “1076”; lower left, brown ink, last two words crossed out in brown ink and now illegible: “Disegno di[...]”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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