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Bacchus and Ariadne

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1519-1570

Title

Bacchus and Ariadne

Date of Production

(circa) 1565

Medium

black chalk squared underdrawing, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on blue laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.1 cm
Width: 28.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3912

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

Erasmus Philipps, 5th Baronet of Picton Castle, Haverfordwest (1699-1743), acquired around 1730; by descent to Richard Philipps, Baron Milford, Picton Castle, Haverfordwest (1744-1823), L.2687; by descent to Sir John Philipps (d. 1949), until at least 1943; Efim Schapiro, London (1899-1977); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1965

Literature

Wouk, Edward, Frans Floris (1519/20-70): Imagining a Northern Renaissance, Leiden and Boston 2018
pp. 209, 422-23, no. D75 on pp. 642-43
fig. 10.5 on p. 422

Gibbons Lee, Constance, Gardens and gods: Jacopo Galli, Michelangelos “Bacchus” and their art historical settings, PhD diss., Brown University, 1981, published Ann Arbor, MI, 1989
p. 65
fig. 43

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 1 ...More

G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 304

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 126 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, brown ink: "F Floris". Verso: upper left edge, brown ink: "No. 455- CvF / ibbn: //"; lower left edge, on protruding bit of paper, brown ink: "FF". Mount (removed, cut down, in file), written next to L.2687, graphite: “No. 49”.

Collector's mark: Removed from mount (in file), etched in black ink: Baron Milford (L.2687).

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