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Design for an altarpiece - Virgin of the Misericordia protecting bishops and penitents with Saints Peter and Paul

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1525-1575

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1501-1547

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1550 - 1560

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, framed in black chalk, on laid paper, laid down and then laid down again on a page from an album

Dimensions

Height: 30.3 cm
Width: 23.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.402

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

unidentified collector, L.474; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 December 1921, lot 36 (as by Perino, with nine others, including D.1952.RW.403 and 405); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£1.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo: progetto ed esecuzione, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 16/11/1981-31/01/1982

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Literature

Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta, 'Addenda a Luzio Luzzi disegnatore' in 'Bollettino d'Arte', Apr.-Jun 2001 - pp. 39-78; 116
pp. 54, 67
as Luzio Luzzi

Oltre Raffaello: aspetti della cultura figurativa del Cinquecento romano, Trevisano; Montorio; Florence, May - July 1984 Rome 1984
p. 148
as Luzio (?)

Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo: progetto ed esecuzione, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1981-1982
cat. no. 33
Illus. repr. ...More

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
pp. 111-12 under no. 186
attr. to Luzio Romano ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto (possibly on the backing sheet that the drawing sheet is laid down on): upper centre: circle containing a six-pointed star (variant of Heawood 3877 – Rome 1591). Support (historic album page): lower centre: circle containing shape - possibly a distorted fleur-de-lis (no match found in Heawood, Piccard or Briquet).

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: upper right corner, black chalk, crossed out in graphite: “129” [presumably album page number].

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black ink: unidentified collector (L.474). Verso (of backing sheet, hidden under album page, visible via transmitted light): lower right, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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