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Designs for ornamental motifs (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1501-1556

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1487-1564

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1501-1547

Title

Medium

pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 35.7 cm
Width: 24.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.400

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

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval (1708-1792); August Grahl, Dresden (1791-1868), L.1199; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 - 28 April 1885, lot 62; purchased there by Martini (?); possibly William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst,1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 December 1921, lot 36 (a lot of 10 drawings, including D.1952.RW.402, 403 and 405, though unconfirmed that this drawing was among them); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA, 18/11/1958-04/01/1959

Literature

Pouncey, Philip and J.A. Gere, Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Raphael and his circle, London 1962
n. 2 on pp. 109-10 under no. 184

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 24

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: August Grahl (L.1199)

Inscription: 406 #2

Collector's mark: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Watermark: upper centre: circle containing eagle surmounted by crown.

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