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Virgin and Child with Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis

Maker

Lazzaro Grimaldi (artist)
1496-1504

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1446-1516

Formerly attributed to
Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa (artist)
1460-1535

Title

Medium

pen and brown ink, traces of grey wash on laid paper, laid down on an historic support; the circles at bottom were incised with a compass before being traced in ink

Dimensions

Height: 24.8 cm
Width: 17.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2813

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

August Grahl, Dresden (1791-1868); possibly his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 - 28 April 1885, lot 104 (as 'Florentine School'); if so, purchased there by Herbage; Goldschmidt; Licht; Albert Köster (1862-1924); his estate sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 13 November 1924, lot 37; Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 13 July 1936, lot 203 (with 4 others); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £4.4 (Witt's valuation on his index card, out of the 11 guineas, or £11.55 spent on the whole lot); Witt Bequest 1952

In the annotated Grahl catalogue in CABS, this lot was described as ‘Florentine School, Virgin and child and two saints, sepia, heightened with white, h. 17.6, w. 18.8, bt. Herbage’ – 17.6 matches, but 18.8 doesn’t, and odd they didn’t identify the easily identifiable saints when they did elsewhere.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left of centre: a circle with something above or below, but unable to see more clearly due to support.

Inscription: e/30

Inscription: 1613

Inscription: Costa / G- / 1/2 //

Inscription: 32

Inscription: #21 [or #4?]

Inscription: Li03

Inscription: 8

Inscription: 37

Collector's mark: collector's mark of August Grahl (L.1199)

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

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