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Holy Family in a landscape (recto)

Maker

Attributed to
Giuseppe Caletti (Il Cremonese) (artist)
1600-1660

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1591-1666

Title

Date of Production

1628

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.8 cm
Width: 10.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1335

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

by descent to Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926); his sale, Christie's (London), 27 July 1922, part of lot 81 (a box containing 68 drawings by Guercino and others); purchased there by F.R. Meatyard (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£90 for the lot); Witt Bequest 1952 This was part of a lot of 32 Guercinos Witt bequeathed, all purchased at the Gainsborough sale, lot 81; the other drawings have a presumed provenance going back to Casa Gennari (see D.1952.RW.1325), purchased by Bouverie and by descent to Gainsborough; but if this drawing is not by Guercino, can it share the same provenance? Does its presence among the other Guercinos argue that its original attribution should be restored?

Exhibition History

Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925

Literature

Horton, Anne K., 'A Drawing by Guercino' in 'Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin', Fall 1960; XVIII, 1
Fig. 7

Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925
no. 65
Illus. pl. LI

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none visible, but paper is so fine the wire profile is nearly invisible. The drawing on the verso has the look of someone tracing a watermark, but if so, is not at all discernible now.

Inscription: 1628

Inscription: [...]ra a / gratis che p[er]tanto loro si consigliano / et non si fece niente, quod deus- / Ano 1630 //

Inscription: malochi

Inscription: 2641*

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