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Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
died 1627

Title

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Date of Production

1650 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down, with brown ink framing lines, the lower right corner made up

Dimensions

Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 9.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.118

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 380 (with D.1952.RW.119); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (£1.6); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 88
Illus. p. 249

Angulo Iñiguez, Diego and Alfonso E. Perez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, New York 1975-1988; 4 vols.
vol. II, p. 68, no. 395
Illus. pl. XCIX

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): left lower edge, graphite, cut off: “[...]is[?]”; lower edge, graphite, cut off: “[...]y Jn. Sanchez Cotan, [abraded]”; lower right edge, on drawing revealed by removal of this area of backing sheet, graphite: “Herrera”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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