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Two groups of kneeling figures

Maker

Felice Brusasorci (artist)
1539-1605

Title

Two groups of kneeling figures

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on Japanese tissue; tiny sketch in brown ink on the verso (trying to trace the hair from the leftmost figure on the recto?)

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2754

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

Puttick & Simpson (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 7 May 1936, for 5 shillings [not evident in the catalogue so must have been part of a parcel or bundle in lots 120, 121 or 125]; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, last word abraded: di Felice Brusasorci [...].

Inscription: Mount (removed, recorded in file), Recto: right, pen and ink: Del Ricci.

Inscription: Mount (removed, recorded in file), Verso: pen and ink: Morone Bresciano.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: none.

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