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Allegorical compositon - Triumph of Austria

Maker

Giacomo del Po (artist)
1652-1726

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1720

Medium

black chalk on laid paper, incised for transfer and the verso prepared with black chalk

Dimensions

Height: 36.2 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2512

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

Label Text

This may be a design for the frontispiece of a book or a commemorative print. The inscription on the banderole suggests that the composition was intended to celebrate the triumph of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty which ruled the Kingdom of Naples from 1713 to 1734. The semi-naked female figure at the centre may be a personification of Fortune. Her delicate features are typical of Giacomo Del Po’s work as a draughtsman.

Provenance

given to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - Neapolitan drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/2011-26/01/2012

Barock in Neapel, Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna and Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, 10/12/1993-20/02/1994

Literature

Barock in Neapel: Kunst zur Zeit der osterreichischen Vizekonige, Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna; Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, 1993-1994
no. 93
ill. on p. 327

Spinosa, Nicola, Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples 1987
no. 315
pl. 416

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, upper left, black chalk: “TRIUNFO / AUSTRIACO”. Support (removed, in 66/6): Recto: centre, graphite: “no. 1671.”; lower right, graphite: “Giacomo del Po. / Triumph of / l’autrich”; lower right corner, graphite, under- and supra-lined: “VI.”; lower right corner, brown ink, unclear: “pr [?]”.

Collector's mark: none.

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