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Three male nudes (recto)

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1467-1551

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1486-1551

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1477-1549

Title

Three male nudes (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1505

Medium

red chalk (recto), black chalk (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 19.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1852

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

B. Grahame, 1878; Sir Edward John Poynter, London (1836-1919); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 - 25 April 1918, lot 175 (as by Sodoma); Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Rinaldi, Furio, 'Giralamo Genga as a draftsman' in 'Master Drawings', 2014 - pp. 3-58; 52, 1
no. B6
Fig. 68 on p. 47
as 'Attributed to Genga'

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 77

Inscriptions

Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite: 11.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Edward John Poynter (L.874).

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

Watermark: Recto: right centre: circle containing circular flower with a stem and two segmented leaves (see drawing in file. no match found in Briquet, Piccard or Heawood).

Label: Removed from mount, now added to curatorial file: handwritten and printed: Royal Academy Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1879: "Name of Artist Dom. Beccafumi / Title of Work Three Nude Figures / Name and Address of Proprietor Edward J. Poynter Esq. / 28 Albert Gate

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