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Palatine Hill, with the Temple of Venus and the Septizodium of Septimius Severus

Maker

Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the elder (artist)
1520-1583

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1515-1573

Title

Palatine Hill, with the Temple of Venus and the Septizodium of Septimius Severus

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 28.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3998

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

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (1680-1765); possibly his estate sale, P. Rémy (Paris), 18 - 28 January 1779, part of lot 178; Dr Alfred Scharf, London; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Disegni Veronesi del Cinquecento, Centro di Cultura e Civilta, Verona, 1971 (July)

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961

Literature

Jenkins, Catherine, Nadine M. Orenstein and Freyda Spira (eds.), The Renaissance of etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019
pp. 196-97

Disegni Veronesi del Cinquecento, Centro di Cultura e Civilita, Verona, 1971
no. 21
ill.

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 63

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: unable to check drawing due to mount. Mount (historic), Verso: left centre: coat of arms? Something containing a crown. Right centre: countermark: “C D” or “G D”.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, abraded and hard to read: “G.B” [?]; upper left, graphite, underlined: “5”; upper left, red chalk, underlined: “1122”; centre, graphite: “Settizonio di Severo, Palatino / a Roma / de’truit”; lower centre, dark brown ink: “Batista del Moro.”; lower centre, graphite, hard to read: “A/6”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, pen and brown ink: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (L.2951), with inventory number “774”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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