Decorative panel using armour (recto)
Sketches of figures, one seated (verso)
Maker
After
(artist)
1499-1543
(artist)
1499-1543
Title
Decorative panel using armour (recto)
Sketches of figures, one seated (verso)
Sketches of figures, one seated (verso)
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown, yellow and white bodycolour (recto), black chalk (verso) on laid paper; the upper corners cut and made up
Dimensions
Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 18.6 cm
Width: 18.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3499
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
John Talman, Italy and Hinxworth (1677-1726); possibly his estate sale, Cock (London), 4 - 10 April 1728; 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), for £14; Witt Bequest 1952
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink: J: Talman / 15 / AA (Does not match any of Talman's marks on Lugt but the 'AA' as inscribed here is listed among known Talman marks in Anthony Griffiths and Hugh Macandrew, 'The Talman Collection, Marks and Sales', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 59, 1997, p. 208, no. 20).
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink: J: Talman / 15 / AA (Does not match any of Talman's marks on Lugt but the 'AA' as inscribed here is listed among known Talman marks in Anthony Griffiths and Hugh Macandrew, 'The Talman Collection, Marks and Sales', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 59, 1997, p. 208, no. 20).
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