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Landscape with the sacrifice of Isaac (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1555-1619

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1564

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1488-1576

Title

Landscape with the sacrifice of Isaac (recto)

Date of Production

1570 - 1619

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), pen and brush and brown ink, red chalk (verso - backing sheet), on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 25.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1161

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

Reverend Dr Henry Wellesley, Oxford (1791-1866); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 June - 10 July 1866, lot 2104 (as by Titian); purchased there by Henry Gay Hewlett, Kent (1832-1897); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 - 29 November 1922, lot 20 (as by Venetian School, attributed to Titian or Domenico Campagnola); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961

Literature

Bohn, Babette, Ludovico Carracci and the art of drawing, Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004
no. Q4
Fig. p. 478

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1996-1997
no. 28
Fig. p. 68
as by Agostino

Bohn, Babette, 'I disegni giovanili a penna di Ludovico Carracci' in 'Accademia Clementina Atti e Memorie', 1993 - 229-254; NS, 32
p. 233
Fig. p. 243, pl. 8 ...More

Bohn, Babette, The drawings of Ludovico Carracci, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1982
p. 341, no. R214

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 5 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Titian

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

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