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Saint Raimondo of Pennaforte sailing on his robe

Maker

(artist)
1555-1619

Title

Date of Production

1608 - 1610

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper with brown ink framing lines and a single horizontal line (added later?) in red chalk towards the lower edge

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 13.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1236

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

lot 247 in an unidentified sale [per inscription on mount, now removed and in P&D portfolio]; William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836), L.2662; sale of the property of a Lady, Sotheby's (London), 10 December 1930, lot 5; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 16 September 1935 (£3 and in part exchange); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxfor & England, 10/12/1996-31/03/1997

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977

The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961 ...More

Mostra dei Carracci, Bologna & Italy, 1956 ...Less

Literature

Bohn, Babette, Ludovico Carracci and the art of drawing, Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004
no. 241
Fig. p. 390

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1996-1997
no. 18
Fig. p. 58

Feigenbaum, Gail, Lodovico Carracci: a study of his later career and a catalogue of his paintings, Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 1984
under no. 117 ...More

Bohn, Babette, The drawings of Ludovico Carracci, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1982
no. 156

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 20

Mostra dei Carracci: disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956
no. 21
Illus. pl. 8 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: large circle with a double border containing writing (looks similar to Vryheyt marks, but those are late 18th/early 19th century marks).

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, graphite: "Barotio" Mount (removed, in box of mounts in P&D): Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "Lodovico Caracci"; lower left, brown ink: "P. 2. / 63"; lower right, graphite: "A6187" [Colnaghi number]. Verso: upper centre, red ink: "Lot 247"; upper left, ink: "17 # / WYO" [collector's mark of William Young Ottley (L.2662)]

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