Marriage feast at Cana
Maker
(artist)
1550-1628
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
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
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.
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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