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Design for the decoration of a lunette

Maker

(artist)
1511-1574

Attributed to
(artist)
1525-1575

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1501-1547

Title

Design for the decoration of a lunette

Date of Production

1625 - 1675

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, cut into a lunette, partially drawn with a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 38.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1507

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

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Provenance

H.E. Morritt; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 22 March 1923, lot 24; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, Oxford Arts Club, 1924

Literature

Härb, Florian, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1547), Roma 2015
no. 210

Fairbairn, Lydia, Italian Renaissance drawings from the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1998
vol. II, p. 518

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, graphite: checkmark; centre, graphite, erased: “[…]64”; right of centre, graphite: “9”; lower right, graphite, all erased: “2b2 £ / 6 / 242 A / 26= / 16 //”; lower left edge, graphite, abraded and partially hidden: “R[…]onaco [?] / de in Vanna orn[…] //”; lower right edge, graphite: “10/5 / P. Buo [or Biro?] //”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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