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Allegory of Spring

Maker

After
(artist)
1558-1617

Title

Allegory of Spring

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on brown-prepared laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 39 cm
Width: 26.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3307

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

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Allegory of Spring

Label Text

This drawing demonstrates the important role of prints in disseminating new artistic inventions as it copies the figure representing the season of spring in an engraving after a design by Hendrick Goltzius. Goltzius based his female figure of Spring on Donatello‘s famous David (around 1440) and played on the sculpture’s androgyny, adding garlands and a basket of fresh leaves, attributes of the female personification of Spring.

Provenance

Schapiro collection.Froh. (?); acquired from him (in an exchange) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (along with the engraving it copies, G.1990.WL.986); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Renaissance Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/04/2015-07/06/2015

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (hidden under backing sheet): centre, pen and ink: illegible due to backing sheet [can get photograph with another set of hands]. Verso (backing sheet): upper left, graphite, unclear: "cream mark / 15 Mark / 20 5/8 x 13 1/8 / equal [...] matten / x //"; centre, graphite, large, framed in a square: "197"; lower left corner, graphite: "pcc / III / 6 -- //"; lower right, graphite, Witt number: "Goltzius 3307".

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

Label: Artist's name and dates//1589 Autumn//Engraved by J.Matham//Coll. Schapiro

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