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Assumption of the Virgin

Maker

(artist)
1550-1628

Title

Assumption of the Virgin

Date of Production

1626

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 31.2 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1208

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

John MacGowan, Edinburgh (d. 1803), L.1496; Dr Brewer (? according to mount inscription); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£2.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Ivanoff, Nicola and Pietro Zampetti, Giacomo Negretti detto Palma Il Giovane, Bergamo 1980
no. 430 on p. 595
Illus. p. 736

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1020, p. 209

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1626

Inscription: John MacGowan's Colln / + Dr Brewer's //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of John MacGowan (L.1496)

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