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Portrait of Tommaso Salini

Maker

(artist)
1578-1630

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1618

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 11 cm
Width: 10.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3759

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

Padre Sebastiano Resta, Milan (1635-1714) (his album N); acquired from him by Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (1647-1704); purchased from his heirs by John Talman (1677-1726), 1711, on behalf of John, Lord Somers (1650-1716); his estate sale, Motteu (London), 6 May 1717; Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952 The above provided by Jeremy Wood in his 1996 Master Drawings article 'Padre Resta as a collector of Carracci drawings', p. 36, based on this as belonging to album N.

Literature

Primarosa, Yuri, Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630): eccellente miniator di ritratto : catalogo ragionato dei disegni e dei dipinti, Rome 2017
no. 388 and p. 726 under no. 69
ill. on p. 489
dated c. 1618

Sani, Bernardina, La fatica virtuosa di Ottavio Leoni, Turin and New York 2005
pp. 161-62
fig. 102

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge: fragment of a circle containing a bird standing in profile facing left with a letter 'M' behind its shoulder (no match found in Briquet, Piccard or Heawood).

Inscription: Ottavio Leone / Italian 1575/8-1628/31 / Portrait of Domenico Poligo / Inscribed in Padre Resta's handwriting. / 3759 //

Inscription: D Dom:co Poligo comp.o d'And.a del Sarto

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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