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Landscape with figures

Maker

Attributed to
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

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

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).

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