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Juno (study for the fresco in the Farnese Palace, Rome)

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1557-1602

Alternatively attributed to
(artist)
1560-1609

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1550-1578

Title

Juno (study for the fresco in the Farnese Palace, Rome)

Date of Production

1597 - 1608

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, all four corners cut, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 19.4 cm
Width: 13.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1275

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

acquired by Colnaghi (London) from an anonymous source, 16 September 1935; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, that same day (£3 and in part exchange, as by Agostino); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, 09/04/1997-09/05/1997

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

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

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

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

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

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

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

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

Literature

Diane DeGrazia, 'Carracci drawings in Britain and the state of Carracci studies', in Master Drawings, 36, 3, 1998
p. 301
Fig. 6
As by Agostino Carracci.

Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1996-1997
no. 84
Fig. p. 135

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 26 ...More

Martin, John Rupert, The Farnese Gallery, Princeton, 1965
pp. 219, 262, no. 92
Fig. 203

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 138
Illus. pl. XXXVIII

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 25

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 29

Mostra dei Carracci: disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956
no. 192

Tomory, Peter Alexander, The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, 1954
p. 22 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing sheet. Mount (historic), Recto: left centre edge, fragments: two marks superimposed over each other so mount is composed of at least two sheets: the upper and lower halves of a Strasburg lily over probably a cursive “W”.

Inscription: 12

Inscription: 3

Inscription: Agostino Carracci 22/8

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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