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Tobias restoring his father's sight

Maker

Livio Agresti (artist)
1508-1579

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1540-1609

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1555 - 1556

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (some now pink) on blue laid paper, framed with brown ink lines to form a wedge, and squared in black chalk

Dimensions

Height: 36.9 cm
Width: 33.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2321

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

Antonio Tronsarelli, Rome (d. 1601) (no. A37 in his album of drawings per Lanfranco 1998 and 2003); the entire album probably purchased from his heirs by a member of the Borghese family (see Lanfranco 2003, p. 73); Sotheby's (London), 22 February 1928 (with D.1952.RW.2320); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

16th Century Italian Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1969

Literature

Lafranconi, Matteo, 'A Roman colllector of the late sixteenth century: Antonio Tronsarelli' in 'Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe c. 1500-1750', Ashgate 2003 - pp. 55-78
p. 67
fig. 5.11 on p. 71

Lafranconi, Matteo, 'Antonio Tronsarelli: A Roman collector of the late sixteenth century' in 'Burlington Magazine', August 1998 - pp. 537-550; 140, 1145
p. 542
fig. 41 on p. 543

Viroli, G., Pittura del Cinquecento a Forli, Bologna 1993
vol. II, no. 59 on p. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre: two crossed arrows (similar in type to Briquet 6298-6300 but no star visible).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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