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Design for a ceiling decoration, with Virtues and other figures (recto)

Maker

(Artists)
1511-1574

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for a ceiling decoration, with Virtues and other figures (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1555 - 1560

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, executed using a ruler and compass, the central tondo and two rectangular paintings below have been cut out and re-inserted (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.8 cm
Width: 34.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3504

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

an anonymous eighteenth-century collection; sale of that collection, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1944, lot 113 (as by Thornhill, with D.1952.RW.3503 and 3504); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Giorgio Vasari: principi, letterati e artisti nelle carte di Giorgio Vasari, Casa Vasari, Arezzo, 26/09/1981-29/11/1981

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 28/10/1979-27/01/1980

Arezzo, Italy, 1974 ...More

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961 ...Less

Literature

Härb, Florian, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1547), Roma 2015
pp. 354 - 355

Acidini, Cristina and Giacomo Pirazzoli, Ammannati e Vasari: per la città dei Medici, Florenec 2011
p. 43
fig. 15

Giorgio Vasari: principi, letterati e artisti nelle carte di Giorgio Vasari, Casa Vasari, Arezzo, 1981
cat. no. VIII/ 47a
pp. 287-89
fig. 169 ...More

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 1979 / 1980
cat. no. 73

Monbeig Goguel, Catherine, Il Manierismo fiorentino, Milan 1971
pl. 22

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 95

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 11 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: circle containing an "M"? topped by a cross (see photo in file, not found in Briquet under "M").

Inscription: Recto: all in brown ink, artist’s hand: around central tondo: “SIMILIS FACTUS SUM PELLICANO” and “IHS”, and around the sides, clockwise from upper left: “MODEST/IA”, “SPES”, “PATIENTIA”, “T[…]PERA / […]TIA”, “CONSTAN/TIA”, “CONCORD/IA”, “PAX”, “IVSTITI/A”, “FIDES”, “CONTRI/TIO”, “VIRGINITA/S” and “CASTI/TAS”; upper right corner, graphite: “3”.

Collector's mark: none.

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