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Amphitrite with Nereids and Tritons carried on dolphins

Maker

(artist)
1566-1651

Title

Amphitrite with Nereids and Tritons carried on dolphins

Date of Production

1620 - 1630

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 21.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2780

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

George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 June 1936; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Literature

Bolten, Jaap, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651: the drawings, 2007
no. 544 on p. 192
fig. 544 on p. 251

Roethlisberger, Marcel G. and Marten Jan Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Doornspijk 1993
p. 277 under no. 423

Bosque, Andrée de, Mythologie et maniérisme aux Pays-Bas 1570-1630. Peintures-Dessins, Antwerp 1985
p. 281
ill. on p. 280 ...More

T. Gerszi, Netherlandish Drawings in the Budapest Museum, Amsterdam, 1971.
I, p. 24, under no. 16, n. 3 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: "A Blomaert.".

Collector's mark: none.

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