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Temptation of Saint Francis

Maker

(artist)
1561-1630

Formerly attributed to
Giovanni Battista Ricci (artist)
1537-1627

Title

Temptation of Saint Francis

Date of Production

(21 June) 1591

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partially trimmed away, cut into an oval

Dimensions

Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2558

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Angelo Loda, 'Alcune aggiunte alla grafica bresciana dei Della Rovere con un accenno a quelle di Francesco Giugno e Ottavio Amigoni', in BrixiaSacra: Memorie storiche della diocesi di Brescia, vol. XVIII, no. 1-4 (December 2013), pp. 477-497
p. 484, note 7

McCullagh, Suzanne Folds, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago 1997
pp.213-214

Neilson, Nancy Ward, Review of 'Ugo Ruggeri, Disegni lombardi secenteschi dell'Accademia Carrara di Bergamo' in 'Master Drawings', Autumn 1976; 14, 3
p. 313
fig. 1 on p. 312

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, brown ink: “1591 J. B. R. 21 giugno”; centre, graphite, abraded: “3-“; lower left, graphite: “p.122”; lower right, graphite: “4”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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