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Death of Ananias

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1551-1629

After
(artist)
1553-1626

Title

Death of Ananias

Date of Production

(circa) 1604

Medium

red chalk, red wash on laid paper, with an arched top, now laid down on Japanese tissue with section on lower verso removed to reveal inscription

Dimensions

Height: 42.3 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3075

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

Padre Sebastiano Resta, Milan (1635-1714) (his album L); acquired from him by Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (1647-1704); purchased from his heirs by John Talman (1677-1726), 1711, on behalf of John, Lord Somers (1650-1716), L.2981; his estate sale, Motteu (London), 6 May 1717; Francis Abbott, Edinburgh (1801-1893); Christie's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952 The above provided by Jeremy Wood in his 1996 Master Drawings article 'Padre Resta as a collector of Carracci drawings', p. 36, based on this as belonging to album L.

Exhibition History

The Achievement of a Connoisseur: Philip Pouncey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 01/10/1985-01/12/1985

Literature

The Achievement of a Connoisseur: Philip Pouncey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1985
cat. no. 37
no. 37
ill.

Pouncey, Philip, 'A "Bozzetto" by Roncalli for his Altar-Piece in St Peter's', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 119, No. 888, Special Issue Devoted to Italian Painting of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Mar., 1977), pp. 223-225
p. 225
fig. 106

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink: “Pomaranci”; lower left, graphite, erased: "Pomeranci"; lower centre, brown ink, Resta-Somers number: “l.176”. Verso: lower centre, brown ink: “Anania e morti / per la Capell Clementina a canto agli Gregoriani / con l’e[?] di [… ]/ ? //" and to the right of this is written: "Clem. [...] / [...] 1605 //". Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D), Recto: lower centre, graphite: “Death of Sapphira._ Study for Picture in the Capella Clementina at Rome / [arrow pointing up] / Padre Resta number //”; lower centre, brown ink: “Cavaliere Christoforo Roncalli, delle Pomerance / Born 1552 Died 1626 //”. Support (removed, cut down and now in file), graphite: “Antonio Circignani / Della Pomerance //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre, brown ink: Lord John Somers (L.2981). Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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