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Marriage of Saint Catherine

Maker

(artist)
1563-1610

Title

Marriage of Saint Catherine

Date of Production

1601

Medium

black chalk, brown wash on laid paper, cut into an arch and laid down, on a historic mount, with many large areas of loss at the upper edge and lower left edge filled in

Dimensions

Height: 39.3 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2683

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

Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, purple ink, erased: “ILTINTORETTO. [Robusty 1512-1594.”; lower left, graphite, underlined word above Witt number: “mounting / 2683 //”; lower centre, graphite: “The Marriage of S. Catherine of Siena”. Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite, erased: “cf painting in Chiesa del Rifugio Siena / + in Coll of Comtesse Bontourlein, which is signed.”

Collector's mark: none.

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