Bacchanal
Maker
(artist)
1625-1713
1625-1713
Title
Bacchanal
Medium
red chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount
Dimensions
Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 30.8 cm
Width: 30.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3795
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
unidentified collector (not in Lugt); Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852; Count Moriz von Fries, Vienna (1777-1826), L.2903; W. Mellish (London), ca. 1820; Francis Abbott, Edinburgh (1800-1893), L.2903; Beaux Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Woldt, Isabella, Architektonik der Former in Shaftesburys "Second Characters": Uber soziale Neigung des Menschen, Kunstproduktion und Kunstwahrnehmung, Munich and Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2004
p. 213
pl. 69
Vitzthum, Walter, I disegni dei maestri: Il Barocco a Roma, Milan, Fratelli Fabri, 1971
pl. XXXII
p. 213
pl. 69
Vitzthum, Walter, I disegni dei maestri: Il Barocco a Roma, Milan, Fratelli Fabri, 1971
pl. XXXII
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none evident, though difficult to see due to mount.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, a transcription of the blindstamped initials above: “FA”. Mount (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite, circled, cut off: “550” [or “850”?]; lower centre, dark brown ink: “Carlo Maratti / Born 1625 Died 1713”; lower right, graphite: “From Sir S. Astley + [the previous 3 words crossed through and replaced with the following] Abbott + Marriette Collections”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “3795”; lower right corner, graphite: “W / #1”.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, blindstamped: Count Moriz von Fries (L.2903); lower right, blindstamped: Francis Abbott (L.970); lower left, blindstamped: unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt - a blindstamped circle 1.05 cm in diameter, unable to see what, if anything, it contains); lower right, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852).
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, a transcription of the blindstamped initials above: “FA”. Mount (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite, circled, cut off: “550” [or “850”?]; lower centre, dark brown ink: “Carlo Maratti / Born 1625 Died 1713”; lower right, graphite: “From Sir S. Astley + [the previous 3 words crossed through and replaced with the following] Abbott + Marriette Collections”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “3795”; lower right corner, graphite: “W / #1”.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, blindstamped: Count Moriz von Fries (L.2903); lower right, blindstamped: Francis Abbott (L.970); lower left, blindstamped: unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt - a blindstamped circle 1.05 cm in diameter, unable to see what, if anything, it contains); lower right, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852).
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