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Caricature of a man holding doughnuts on a skewer (recto)

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1598-1680

Title

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto and verso), upper and lower edges made up and with brown ink framing lines (recto), on laid paper, in a double-sided Mariette mount (confirmed under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 28.4 cm
Width: 19.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2274

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

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774); his sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, part of lot 202; purchased there by Pierre François Basan (1723-1797), for 15 livres 19 sols; Henry Danby Seymour (1820-1877); by descent to his brother, Alfred Seymour, London and Trent (1824-1888), L.176; by descent to his daughter, Jean Margaret Seymour (1873-1943); her sale, London (Sotheby's), 26 April 1927, lot 6; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Bernini. Inventor of Baroque Rome, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, 08/11/2014-01/02/2015

Effigies and Ecstasies - Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in
the Age of Bernini, National Gallery of Scotland & Edinburgh, 25/06/1998-20/09/1998

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971 ...More

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

Literature

Rosenberg, Paul, Les dessins de la Collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. 4 vols, Paris 2019
vol. I, no. I 164 on p. 145
ill. on p. 145 (recto and verso)

Rosenberg, Pierre, 'Drawings of Seventeenth-Century Italian sculptors from the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette', in The Eternal Baroque: studies in honour of Jennifer Montagu, Carolyn H. Miner (ed.), Milan, 2015
p. 30

Jeanette Stoschek and Sebastian Schutze, eds., Bernini. Erfinder des barocken Rom, exh. cat., Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Kunste, 2014
cat. no. 24
pp. 130-31
ill. on pp. 134-35 ...More

Effigies and Ecstasies - Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998, 1998
cat. no. 20
pp. 62-63 and p. 202, notes 1-6
ill. on p. 63

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 36 ...Less

Inscriptions

Label: originale desiné de la main du cauvallie bernin, / seculpeterer et achiteque, illustre. 1667. / fecite / Le mardy gras, inc Roma, / Fiorentino sc. di Pietro suo padre

Inscription: un corno

Inscription: si cor mio

Inscription: Bernini

Inscription: Originalle de Cavallier / bernein faite in roma en 7 bre

Inscription: 1598-1680

Inscription: EQ.JOAN.LAUR. / BERNINI

Inscription: T.O. / cf drawing by Seb[...] / collection L.G. Duke, Siena [...]

Inscription: 7 / no 43

Collector's mark: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852)

Collector's mark: Alfred Seymour (L.176)

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

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