Bacchus and Ariadne
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1519-1570
(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
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
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
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).
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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