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God the Father supported by angels in the clouds

Maker

(artist)
1727-1804

Title

God the Father supported by angels in the clouds

Date of Production

c. 1783 - 1784

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash on laid paper, on a historic support
Recto, centre: letters “VS” [?] above which is an arrow pointing upward (no match in Heawood). Support (historic), centre: large circle containing ornamental scroll in its lower half (not clear enough to identify).

Dimensions

Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 18.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1836

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

Benno Geiger, Italy (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 328; Richeton; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; 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

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 60

Byam Shaw, J., 'A Sketch for a Ceiling by Domenico Tiepolo' in 'Burlington Magazine', December 1959 - 447-451; 101, 681
p. 448
p. 450, fig. 45
see attached PDF

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 7

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper left, light brown ink: “i4i” [as in "141, see Byam Shaw's Burlington article, p. 448, n. 10]; lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist (according to Byam Shaw): “Dom.o Tiepolo f”. Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “10”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “11/a”, erased underneath is “100 0”; upper right corner, graphite, circled: “12”; centre, blue crayon, circled in graphite: “328”; centre, graphite, circled: “28”; lower centre, graphite, underlined with a flourish: a name? erased and now illegible.

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