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Vases and other decorative motives

Maker

Style of
(artist)
1481-1551

Title

Vases and other decorative motives

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, graphite added to fill in the vase at lower right, on a historic border support

Dimensions

Height: 32.8 cm
Width: 23 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3986

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



key pattern



Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley, II, Paris (1847-1919), L.421; Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Label: Handwritten, lower margin: "3986 / Aristotele Sangallo / Italian, 1481-1551 / Coll. //"

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, brown ink, artist’s hand: left centre edge, adjacent to base of a column which is annotated with small measurements: “qo 7 n 02 / x / o / 6 …10 / & porfido / […] Teargno [?] / del papa //”; lower left corner: “a Santo argo Sfolo / e sono […] putini / in fare e luogo [...] / [last line cut away] //”; right centre edge: “ 50 / pirni queste / bacagli //”; right centre edge: “qo no 50”. Verso: lower left, graphite: “vu Dar 96”; lower right corner, graphite: “98”. Support (historic), Recto: left centre edge, oriented vertically, graphite: “En porphyre dans le jardin du pape”; left centre edge, graphite: “En porphyre / dans le jardin / du Pape_. //; left lower edge, graphite: “Aux Sts Apostres”; lower centre edge, graphite, underlined: “Aristotile da San Gallo_”; lower left, graphite: “370 47 / 25% x 35 //”; upper right, graphite: “No 5”. Mount (removed): Verso: lower right, graphite: "#15/Operant [?]"

Label: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, printed in black ink with letters aded in grey ink: “86 / AP //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Alfred Beurdeley, II (L.421). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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