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Marriage feast at Cana

Maker

(artist)
1550-1628

Title

Marriage feast at Cana

Date of Production

1625

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now discoloured) on brown laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 29.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1207

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 Charles Greville (1763-1832); by descent to his nephew, George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), L.2600; his sale, Christie's (London), 21 May 1896, lot 251 (with D.1952.RW.1206); purchased there by Richards; E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£2.3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Ivanoff, Nicola and Pietro Zampetti, Giacomo Negretti detto Palma Il Giovane, Bergamo 1980
no. 429 on p. 595
Illus. p. 735

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1022, p. 209

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, centre on end of table, brown ink dated in artist's hand:1625 Z.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Earl of Warwick (L.2600).

Watermark: possibly at upper centre, but sheet too badly damaged to decipher.

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