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Group from a 'Last Judgment'

Maker

Italy circa 1600 (artist)
1590 - 1610 (Life dates)

After
(artist)
1450-1516

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Group from a 'Last Judgment'

Date of Production

(circa) 1600

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, joined with two other fragments to make a square and all laid down

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.373

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



eschatology


Provenance

Double Numbering Collector, Rome (not in Lugt); Colnaghi (London); acquired there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 1935 (£5 and in part exchange, probably for one of numerous drawings Witt sold to Colnaghi on 16 September 1935); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Koreny, Fritz, Hieronymous Bosch. Die Zeichnungen. Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts, Turnhout, Brepols 2012
pl. 118
as Anonymous Italian artist c. 1600 after Bosch

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, brown ink, double-numbering collector’s hand: “137” and at lower left “cento” and at lower right “trenta / sette //”. Verso (backing sheet): upper centre, graphite: “cf Triptych of the Last Judgment / engraving published by H Cock after H. Bosch. //”; lower left, brown ink: “SW 343”. Backing sheet, Recto (only visible via transmitted light): lower left corner, graphite?: “Brueghel / […] Teniers //”.

Collector's mark: Recto, within the drawing, inscriptions transcribed above: Double Numbering Collector (not in Lugt). Verso (backing sheet): lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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