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Caricature portraits of two ecclesiastics: Monsignor Diedo, Bishop of Torcello and Murano, and Father Lombardi Veronese, a Jesuit of the Novitiate Church

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

Caricature portraits of two ecclesiastics: Monsignor Diedo, Bishop of Torcello and Murano, and Father Lombardi Veronese, a Jesuit of the Novitiate Church

Date of Production

(15 June) 1752

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, with brown ink framing lines, on laid paper, laid down on an historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 35.3 cm
Width: 24 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1262

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

Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran Marquis de Lagoy, Aix-en-Provence (1764-1829), L.1710; Alfred Seymour, Trent (1824-1888), L.176; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 April 1927, lot 49; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 18 July 1935 (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953 ...Less

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 47

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 31

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 70 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 51 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, right centre: obscured by mount, can only see a circle with a double border, above are letters, only visible is “M”. Mount (historic): Recto, right centre edge, cut off: “ON” or “OM”.

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Alfred Seymour (L.176)

Inscription: Monro. Diedo Vescovo di torcello e Murano. Venetiano_ P. Lombardi Veronese, Gesuita alla chiesa del Novitiato / fatto da me Cav. Ghezzi il di 15. Giugnio 1752 - fatti alli Camandoli di Frascati. //

Inscription: 22i [or zzi] / 55 //

Inscription: 8 / no / 21 //

Inscription: 11

Inscription: compare Roma-Vigo R.m. [?]

Inscription: A4909

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran Marquis de Lagoy (L.1710)

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