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Design for ceiling decoration - Venus petitions Jupiter for Aeneas' deification

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for ceiling decoration - Venus petitions Jupiter for Aeneas' deification

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 13.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2237

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

Mrs. Esdaile; acquired from her by B.T. Batsford (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), before November 1926 (along with D.1952.RW.2223, 2225, 2227, 2228, 2230, 2231, 2233, 2243, 2245, 2246, 2248, 2250); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 51

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge and along lower edge, fragment: tips of letters or lines can just be seen.

Inscription: Venus petitions Jupiter for AEneas's Deification.

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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