Landscape with figures
Maker
Attributed to
Giuseppe Santini (artist)
1602-1663
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1599
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1582-1656
Giuseppe Santini (artist)
1602-1663
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1599
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1582-1656
Title
Landscape with figures
Date of Production
1589
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 11.3 cm
Width: 41 cm
Width: 41 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.185
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
William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£1.85, as by Cantagallina); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Goguel, Catherine Monbeig, Les artistes Florentins collectioneurs des dessins de Giorgio Vasari à Emilio Santarelli. Rencontres Internationales du Salon du Dessin, 2006
p. 46-47
Privitera, Marta, 'Il capitano e ingegnere Giuseppe Santini, collezionista di disegni e disegnatore', Paragone Arte 2009, 84-85, pp. 103-111.
Sotheby's (London), Old Master and British Works on Paper, 6 July 2023.
cat. no. 85
p. 46-47
Privitera, Marta, 'Il capitano e ingegnere Giuseppe Santini, collezionista di disegni e disegnatore', Paragone Arte 2009, 84-85, pp. 103-111.
Sotheby's (London), Old Master and British Works on Paper, 6 July 2023.
cat. no. 85
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre (within drawing, on rock), brown ink, artist’s hand: xbre 1589.
Label: Backing paper, detached from old mount, now kept separately from file, graphite: first backing had no information (disposed of) [with sample of paper] / L.2228b / 185; From mount: Mestre de v.3.II; St Della Bella; Second backing of D.1952.RW.185 Ex Cantagallina now It. Sc. 16th c. Coll Esdaile; from mount: H293 M/w/-".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, pen and brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617).
Inscription: Recto: lower centre (within drawing, on rock), brown ink, artist’s hand: xbre 1589.
Label: Backing paper, detached from old mount, now kept separately from file, graphite: first backing had no information (disposed of) [with sample of paper] / L.2228b / 185; From mount: Mestre de v.3.II; St Della Bella; Second backing of D.1952.RW.185 Ex Cantagallina now It. Sc. 16th c. Coll Esdaile; from mount: H293 M/w/-".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, pen and brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617).
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