Landscape with the sacrifice of Isaac (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1555-1619
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1564
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1488-1576
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
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
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
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)
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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