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The Blind leading the blind

Maker

(artist)
1609-1664

Title

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, inlaid into a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 26.4 cm
Width: 38.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3845

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

Max Hevesi (dealer in Vienna until 1938, when emigrated to London and founded Hazlitt Gallery); from whom purchased by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (as by Anonymous Italian School); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Baroque Brilliance. The draughtsmanship of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Kunsthaus Zurich, 10/12/2021-06/03/2022

Das Capriccio als Kunstprinzip: zur Vorgeschichte der Moderne von Arcimboldo und Callot bis Tiepolo und Goya, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne; Kunsthaus Zürich; Kuntshistorisches Museum, Vienna, 08/12/1996-21/09/1997

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977 ...More

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 01/09/1971-01/11/1971

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953 ...Less

Literature

Das Capriccio als Kunstprinzip: zur Vorgeschichte der Moderne von Arcimboldo und Callot bis Tiepolo und Goya: Malerei, Zeichnung, Graphik, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Kuntshistorisches Museum im Palais Harrach, Vienna, 1996-1997, 1996
no. Z6
ill. on p. 322

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971
cat. no. 26

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 39 ...More

Percy, Ann, 'A Castiglione "Album"' in 'Master Drawings', Summer 1968 - 144-148, 205-215; 6, 2
no. 11 on p. 148
ill. on p. 212, pl. 41b

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 48 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: just visible via transmitted light at Recto, left centre is a circle, and another figure is at upper centre, but neither is clear due to the mount. Neither is evident in raking light from either the recto nor verso so unclear if either belongs to the drawing sheet or to inner layers of the mount.

Inscription: 2i

Inscription: 3845

Inscription: 3

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

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