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Scene from the life of Don Juan of Austria: tournament scene

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1560-1631

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1590-1646

Title

Scene from the life of Don Juan of Austria: tournament scene

Date of Production

1590 - 1599

Medium

chalk (black), pen and ink (brown), wash (blue) squared in chalk (red) and framed in brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 39.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2789.3

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




Related Works

Scene from the life of Don Juan of Austria: his entrance into Naples Scene from the life of Don Juan of Austria: ships in departure

Label Text

This drawing is one in a series of eleven illustrating the life of Don Juan of Austria, the illegitimate son of Emperor Charles V, who served as captain of a military unit in the Spanish army.The inscription refers to his soldiers' thirst for violence, even when not engaged in battle, as they are shown battling in a tournament. The squaring indicates it may have been preparatory for a large-scale painting or tapestry, though none is known.

Provenance

George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893); Sotheby's (London), 1 July 1936; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The “invention of many works“: Domenico Fontana (1543-1607) and his worksites, Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst, Rancate, Switzerland, 26/11/2022-19/02/2023

Drawings Gallery Display - Reading Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/01/2017-04/06/2017

Special Display - Neapolitan drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/2011-26/01/2012

Literature

Vincenzo Fontana, Mauro, 'Giovanni Balducci e il disegno: novità per il periodo fiorentino e una proposta per il Palazzo Reale a Napoli' in 'I Bozze', September 2014
pp. 10-11
fig. 22

Fischer, Chris and Joachim Meyer, Neapolitan drawings: Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2006
p. 44, n. 4, under no. 2

Giampaolo, Mario Di, 'Balducci o Corenzio? Un'ipotesi' in 'Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana', Munich 1992 - 329-334
p. 331
as Balducci ...More

Bean, Jacob and Lawrence Turcic, 15th and 16th century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982
pl. 66, under no. 54

Nicola Navone, Letizia Tedeschi, Patrizia Tosini, Le 'invenzioni di tante opere' Domenico Fontana e i suoi cantieri, Archivio del Moderno, 2022
pp. 250 - 254 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: i[n]commatersi s’accoppano ampó piú

Inscription: 2789 C Series of scenes from life of Don John of Austria Belisario Corenzio 1558/68-1640/3. Coll Warwick

Inscription: #3

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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