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Decorative panel made up of armour - a smaller drawing set into a niche within the larger drawing representing the same composition

Maker

After
(artist)
1499-1543

Title

Decorative panel made up of armour - a smaller drawing set into a niche within the larger drawing representing the same composition

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash (larger drawing), pen and grey ink, grey and brown wash (smaller drawing set into niche) on laid paper, all laid down on a historic card support

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 26.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3498

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



armors

Provenance

an anonymous eighteenth-century collection; sale of that collection, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1944, lot 71 (with 30 others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, for £14; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, light brown ink, hard to read: “llafft” [?]. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “? Polidoro Caravaggio / 1490/1500-1543 / ? Cherubino Alberti, Popham //”.

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

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