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A Chained Bear

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1557-1602

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1560-1609

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1589-1631

Title

A Chained Bear

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 16.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1159

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

Keywords




Provenance

Jan Pietersz. Zomer, Amsterdam (1641-1724), L.1511; perhaps Jeronimus Tonneman, Amsterdam (1688-1750); his sale, de Leth (Amsterdam), 21 October 1754, p. 17 no. 70 (as by Titian); Henry Gay Hewlett, Kent (1832-1897); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 - 29 November 1922, lot 12 (with D.1952.RW.1160, as by Bolognese School); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxfor & England, 10/12/1996-31/03/1997

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1996-1997
no. 39
Fig. p. 83

Chastel, Andre and Philippe Morel, La Villa Medicis, Rome, 1998-1991
vol. II, p. 369
Illus. vol. II, fig. 11

Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonne, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979
pp. 402-03
Fig. R 35 b

Inscriptions

Inscription: Titian

Inscription: Al illustrissimo / Lond[...] //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Jan Pietersz. Zomer (L.1511)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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