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Sacrifice of Dido to Juno (design for tapestry)

Maker

(artist)
1610-1662

Title

Date of Production

1610 - 1662

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 36.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1710

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

Richard Houlditch, junior, London (d. 1760), L.2214; possibly his estate sale, Langford (London), 12-14 February 1760, 1st night, lot 14 ("four by Mola and Romanelli"), lot 19 ("Three by Romanelli, Passari, &c."), 2nd night, lot 23 ("Two by Salvator Rosa and Romanelli", bought by Mr. Bernard), lot 31 ("Four by Salvator, ROmanelli, &c.", bought by Mr. Crachrode), lot 38 ("Three by Mola, Romanelli &c.", bought by Mr. Howard), 3rd night, lot 22 ("Three by Romanelli, Passari, &c.", bought by Mr. Brent), lot 32 ("Three by Salvator Rosa, Romanelli and P. Laura", bought by Dr Chauncy); Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855 -1935); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 11 April 1935, lot 135; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 16 September 1935 (£6); 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

Literature

Merz, Jörg, Pietro da Cortona und sein Kreis. Die Zeichnungen in Dusseldorf, Munich and Berlin 2005
p. 402

Parker, K.T., Catalogue of the collection of drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1938
vol. II, p. 474

Rubinstein, Ruth, 'Giovanni Francesco Romanelli's Dido and Aeneas Tapestry Cartoons'
unpaginated
fig. 7

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “1”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Richard Houlditch, junior (L.2214). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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