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Bacchanal

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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).

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