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Virgin and Child in Glory with five saints - design for an altarpiece

Maker

Circle of
(artist)
1529-1566

Title

Virgin and Child in Glory with five saints - design for an altarpiece

Date of Production

1545 - 1566

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 17.4 cm
Width: 12.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1733

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

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (1680-1765), L.2951; François Renaud, Paris (late 19th - early 20th century), L.1042; Eduard Schultze, Vienna (d. ca. 1900), L.906; Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 381; F.B. Neumayer (London); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: “Zucharo”; lower left edge, brown ink, hand of Dezallier d’Argenville: “73 [paraph] //”; lower right, brown ink: “Zuccaro”. Mount (historic), Verso: left of centre, graphite, with line pointing to adjacent collector’s mark: “Ed Schultze / Lugt 906 //”; centre, graphite: “57”; lower centre, graphite: “Zuccaro / 1143 [the ‘3’ much fainter] //”; lower left, graphite, circled: “2045”; lower right, graphite: “49867 / R //”; lower left corner, graphite: “582”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville (L.2951), “73” followed by his paraph; lower right corner, blindstamped: François Renaud (L.1042). Mount (historic), Verso: centre, stamped in purple ink: Ed Schultze (L.906); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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