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View of the Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1568-1625

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1570-1629

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1554-1626

Title

View of the Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Date of Production

(20 October) 1587

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and yellow wash on laid paper (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 19.3 cm
Width: 28.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2727

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

Dr Arthur Douglas Heath, Birmingham (1870-1937); his estate sale, Fleetwood, Deakin, Hendriks & Co. (Birmingham), 13 July 1937, lot 197; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 30 September 1937 (£7, as by Bril); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953 ...Less

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 33
as Anonymous – Jan Brueghel the Elder?

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 39
as Flemish school

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133
as Flemish school, sixteenth century ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 86
as Flemish School late sixteenth century

Honig, Elizabeth Alice et al., Jan Brueghel: complete catalogue, https://www.janbrueghel.net/search/site/courtauld [accessed 8 March 2021]
as Jan Brueghel the Elder ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, brown ink: “Tempio di Minerva / medica,”; lower right edge, cut off: “Templum Minerva maed[…] / roma 1587 Ot 20”.

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