Holy Family
Maker
Copy after
(artist)
1546-1611
(artist)
1546-1611
Title
Holy Family
Date of Production
1560 - 1611
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, on a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 16.9 cm
Width: 16.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3948
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
F.A. Drey (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 130
p. 130
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic), centre: "IHS" / IVILLEDARY"
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "Spranger". Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: "Green blue wash / Dark Frame //"; centre, graphite, underlined: "13"; lower left, graphite: "#2".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "Spranger". Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: "Green blue wash / Dark Frame //"; centre, graphite, underlined: "13"; lower left, graphite: "#2".
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