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Studies for a Venus and cupids (?) (recto)
Maker
Vicente Salvador Gómez (artist)
1637-1680
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1601-1667
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Dimensions
Width: 21.8 cm
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Exhibition History
The Spanish Line - From Ribera to Picasso, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/10/2011-15/01/2012
The Witt Collection - Four centuries of drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004 ...More
Alonso Cano, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 02/04/2001-15/06/2001
Sculptors' Drawings Over Six Centuries 1400-1950, Houston & USA, 31/07/1981-20/09/1981
Sculptors' Drawings Over Six Centuries 1400-1950, New York & USA, 13/03/1981-20/06/1981
The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 11/02/1980-29/03/1980
Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968
A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956
17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938 ...Less
Literature
no. 84
ill. on p. 241 (recto), p. 240 (verso)
Alonso Cano: dibujos, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2001
cat. no. 19
p. 131, no. 19
ill. on p. 131
as by Cano
Véliz, Zahira, Alonso Cano's drawings and related works, PhD thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, London 1998
p. 372, no. 120 ...More
Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 158
ill. on p. 159
as by Cano
Wethey, Harold E., Alonso Cano: pintor, escultor y arquitecto, Madrid 1983
no. D.12
fig. 4
The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1980
cat. no. 42
Wethey, Harold E., 'Los dibujos de Alonso Cano' in 'Estudios sobre literatura y arte dedicados al Profesor Emilio Orozco Díaz', Granada 1979
pl. 6 (recto)
Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 25
ill.
A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956
cat. no. 12
Wethey, Harold E., Alonso Cano: painter, sculptor, architect, Princeton, New Jersey 1955
pp. 9-10
fig. 4
Wethey, Harold E., 'Alonso Cano's drawings' in 'The Art Bulletin', 1952 - pp. 217-38; XXXIV, 3
pp. 222-23
fig. 16 (recto), fig. 17 (verso)
made the attribution to Cano
17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
cat. no. 481 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, faded and difficult to read but clearer under UV: “Dn Alonzo Cano = G[...] fec”. Verso: upper right, brown ink, faded and difficult to read (no clearer under UV, perhaps b/c of plexi?): “[...] Juan [...] 25”; left lower edge, brown ink: “2 Res”; lower right edge, brown ink: “Cano”.
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