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Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dreams

Maker

Antonio Gionima (artist)
1697-1732

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1665-1747

Title

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of white bodycolour, on laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 23.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2816

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

Benno Geiger, Italy (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 85 (as Job and the Messengers); probably purchased there by Colnaghi [based on inscribed Colnaghi stock number A2711, which accords with a purchase date in December 1920]; Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 July 1936, lot 80 (as by Gionima); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £7.35; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Exhibition of Drawings of the Bolognese School, Walter Gernsheim, London, 10/05/1937-10/06/1937

Literature

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 29

Geiger, Benno, Handzeichnungen alter Meister, Zurich, 1948
no. 63
ill. on p. 93

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: a bishop's mitre supported by wings, with a curved tail crossed by a bishop's staff? Or could be a tulip with two feathered leaves and a curved stem crossed by a staff (no match found in Heawood, Briquet or Piccard).

Inscription: Verso (hidden by support, visible with transmitted light): upper left, brown ink: “Gionima Day: 3. -63 108“ [the '63' crossed out]; upper right, brown ink: “8.“. Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, mostly erased: “G[...] Crespi“. Support (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A2711“; lower left, graphite: “15“ [or “75“]; lower left edge, graphite: “Giuseppe Maria Crespi“; lower centre edge, graphite: “13“.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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