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Design for a fireplace

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1550-1578

Title

Medium

chalk (black), pen and ink (brown), wash (grey) on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 25.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2547

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 L); acquired from him by Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (1647-1704); purchased from his heirs by John Talman (1677-1726), 1711, on behalf of John, Lord Somers (1650-1716), L.2981; his estate sale, Motteu (London), 6 May 1717, probably section O lot 7 (as Raffaellino); Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792); perhaps his sale, H. Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798, day 9 lot 976 or day 13 lot 1381; E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; 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 this as belonging to album L.

Exhibition History

Special Display - Renaissance drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/2009-20/05/2009

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 28/10/1979-27/01/1980

Literature

Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1980, Gloria dell'arte: a Renaissance perspective, 1980
no. 74

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 1979 / 1980
cat. no. 74

Inscriptions

Inscription: R[...] da Reggio

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Lord John Somers (L.2981)? l.195.

Inscription: Raff.o da Reggi

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364)

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

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