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Virgin and Child with Saints Anne and John the Baptist

Maker

(artist)
1529-1566

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1578-1615

Title

Virgin and Child with Saints Anne and John the Baptist

Date of Production

1545 - 1566

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2704

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

Has. (as per the Witt card); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Gere, John Arthur, Taddeo Zuccaro: his development studied in his drawings, London 1969
no. III
as by Zuccaro

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre: circle containing eagle with spread wings (similar to Briquet 208 – Pisa 1575-79).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper left edge, graphite: “b-104-10” (same type as on support for D.1952.RW.2699); lower centre, brown ink, date added in graphite and partially erased: “Schedone b1560 _ d 1616”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre edge, graphite: “261”; upper centre, graphite, underlined: “HR” [not on Lugt]; upper centre, graphite: “Plain showing / Fine //”; centre, graphite, large: “311” (precedes the number on the verso of the support for D.1952.RW.2699).

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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