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Partial copy after Tintoretto's 'Last Judgment' (Santa Maria dell'Orto, Venice)

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1577-1640

Copy after
(artist)
1519-1594

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1550-1628

Title

Partial copy after Tintoretto's 'Last Judgment' (Santa Maria dell'Orto, Venice)

Date of Production

1500 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on buff laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 56.1 cm
Width: 41.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3424

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



salvation




Provenance

Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855-1935); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 11 April 1935, lot 138 (as Tintoretto); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 January 1944 (£12, as by Palma Giovane, retouched by Rubens); Witt bequest, 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Wood, Jeremy, Rubens: copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. I Raphael and his school (CRLB), London 2010
no. R14
rejected as Rubens

Logan, Anne-Marie, 'Review: Rubens exhibitions, 1977-1978' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 1978 - pp. 419-50; 16, 4
p. 448 under no. 44
not by Rubens

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 44
as Rubens after Tintoretto ...More

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. II, p. 239
fig. XXI
as Rubens ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: a circle, just visible in raking light, though not what it contains.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, cut off: "3 J. Tintorett".

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

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