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Entrance to the Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome

Maker

(artist)
1604-1682

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1615-1675

Title

Entrance to the Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now oxidised and pink), on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 22.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2863

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

Thomas de Grey, Lord Lucas, Wrest Park (1781-1859); Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 and 13 - 14 July 1936, lot 425A; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Art of Claude Lorrain, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Hayward Gallery, London, 27/09/1969-14/12/1969

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

The Art of Claude Lorrain, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1969
cat. no. 102

Roethlisberger, Marcel, 'Drawings around Claude, Part One: A Group of Sixty Grimaldesque Drawings' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 1965; 3, 4
no. 12
as unknown artist in Circle of Grimaldi

Vasari Society, 1922; 2nd series, III
no. 16
ill.
as Dughet

Inscriptions

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

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, former attribution: "Gaspar Dughet".

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