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Design for a sarcophagus with cherubs flanking an empty cartouche

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1601-1667

Formerly attributed to
Pedro de Mena (artist)
1628-1688

Title

Design for a sarcophagus with cherubs flanking an empty cartouche

Date of Production

1650 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 4.8 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.172

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 390 (as by Pedro de Mena, with D.1952.RW.170 and 171); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (7 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Alonso Cano, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 02/04/2001-15/06/2001

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 34
Illus. p. 130

Wethey, Harold E., 'Alonso Cano's drawings' in 'The Art Bulletin', 1952 - pp. 217-38; XXXIV, 3
p. 233
under 'Copies and Wrong Attributions' to Cano

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Historic secondary support (removed and now missing, see photo in file), Recto: right centre and again at lower left, graphite, Witt number: “172”; lower right edge, graphite: “A. Cano / “a good one”. S. Canton” and crossed out “Pedro de Moya”.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount and now mounted separately with the drawing: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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