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Scenes from the Passion of Christ in an ornamental frame (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1596-1657

Title

Scenes from the Passion of Christ in an ornamental frame (recto)

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey-green wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount, which has a pen and brown ink sketch on the verso of an architectural plan

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 28.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1526

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

Johan Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen (1767-1839) [see mount inscription]; A. Berthel, Surrey; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Jacques Stella (1596-1657), Musée des Augustins de Toulouse; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 17/11/2006-18/06/2007

French Art 1600-1800, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 25/10/1938-10/12/1938

Literature

Jacques Stella (1596-1657), Musée des Augustins de Toulouse; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 2006-07
cat. no. 8
p. 62

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: right centre: illegible due to mount. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, just visible in raking light: a circle containing a fleur-de-lis.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper left corner, graphite, underlined: “85”; centre, hidden under drawing, visible via transmitted light, brown ink: numbers written all over, perhaps measurements of a similar architectural plan as drawn on the verso; lower left, brown ink: “Jac. Stella.”; lower left edge, graphite, circled: “29”. Mount (historic), Verso: an architectural plan occupies the right centre of the mount; lower right, graphite, crossed through: “£55”; lower left edge, graphite: “bab[?] de Spengler 588 Nr. 0. 4. 8”; lower right, graphite, source of Witt’s acquisition: “Ber.20”; lower right edge, graphite: “3327 e/-”; lower right corner, brown ink: “J Stella”; lower right corner, black chalk: “R”.

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