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Christ and the woman of Samaria at the well

Maker

(artist)
1557-1602

Title

Medium

chalk (black), pen and ink (brown), wash (brown), bodycolour (white) on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 19.9 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2418

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

Padre Sebastiano Resta, Milan (1635-1714) (his album D?); purchased from him by Henry Newton in Rome, 1712 on behalf of John, Lord Somers (1650-1716); his estate sale, Motteu (London), 5 May 1717; purchased there by Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2184 and L.2983; Paul Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1878-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 July 1923; Haldane Macfall (1860-1928); by descent to his wife; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 12 June 1929, lot 42; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952 The above provided by Jeremy Wood in his 1996 Master Drawings article 'Padre Resta as a collector of Carracci drawings', p. 36, based on the assumption that the 'D' inscribed on the recto and verso of the mount here refers to Album D of Padre Resta's album of drawings. However, Wood did not identify this drawing as one of those listed by Carracci in Somers's two manuscript catalogues now at the BL, Lansdowne MS 802 and 803.

Exhibition History

Eton, 1939

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938

Exhibition of Drawings of the Bolognese School, Walter Gernsheim, London, 10/05/1937-10/06/1937

Literature

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
no. 371

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none evident, though difficult to see clearly through mount.

Inscription: D.47.30 / V.11. / Z.5. / E. //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2184)

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

Inscription: 14 / Carracci //

Inscription: 2

Inscription: D 45

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