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Design for a frieze - after the Cleobis and Biton relief in Venice

Maker

After
(artist)
1499-1543

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1529-1566

Title

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash with brown ink framing lines on laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 12.1 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2545

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

Notes

The composition is copied from a Roman sarcophagus now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Venice.

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852; possibly his estate sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 – 30 January 1776, lots 267, 268 or 271; if lot 267, purchased there by Lachey for 36 livres; if lot 268, purchased there by Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris (1701-1779); if lot 271, purchased there by either Basan (Paris) or Fauver; if purchased by Lachey [as Rosenberg 2019 believed likely], possibly in his sale, Paris, 3 December 1793, possibly lot 35 (under Caravaggio, 'sujet d'Enfans qui assiègent un fort, composition de plus de douze figures à la plume, lavé d’encre de la Chine, rehaussé de blanc', did not cite Mariette provenance); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d., for 28 shillings; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Rosenberg, Paul, Les dessins de la Collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. 4 vols, Paris 2019
vol. II, no. I 1512 on p. 889
ill. on p. 889

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to historic support. A note in the file suggests there may be one below the standing figure on the left (the VSC does not reveal anything).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “Bassorilievo Antico.”. Support (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: “J.626”; lower right corner, graphite: “11”. Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), graphite: “Taddeo Zuccaro (Lanfranco / Ravelli) //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852). Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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