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Marriage of Saint Catherine

Maker

After
(artist)
1503-1540

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
ca. 1509-1571 (Life dates)

Title

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour on brown-prepared laid paper, inlaid into a historic mount; huge areas of loss in the paper are made up with brown wash on the underlying mount

Dimensions

Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 19.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1829

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

Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Paris then London (1743-1795), L.474 (lower right) and L.3510 (verso); inherited by his son, Charles Étienne Bourgevin Vialart, comte de Carrière (1772-1817); his sale, H. Phillips (London), 10-14 June 1797, day 2, lot 26; bought in [as per Phillips's annotated sale catalogue, see Brooks and Lee 2021]; Richeton; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Mostra del Correggio, Parma, Italy, 1935

Literature

Brooks, Julian and Case Lee, 'Transcriptions of Auctioneer Henry Phillips’s Annotated Catalogues of the 1797 and 1799 Sales of the Drawings of the Comte de Carrière. Supplement to the article by Julian Brooks and Casey Lee...', 2021
p. 11n21
Fig. 24

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none evident but paper is too heavily damaged to see clearly.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet added to mount), upper left, brown ink over graphite, large: "Lt 2 / T[or J?] D" (related to Saint-Morys's inscription below? no other match identified on Lugt); lower centre, brown ink, hand of Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.3510): "2. D. L 26." (as in Day 2, Lot 26 in Saint-Morys's 1797 estate sale, see Brooks and Casey Lee in Master Drawings, 2021).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.474). Verso (backing sheet added to mount): lower centre, written in brown ink: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.3510).

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