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Christ giving the Keys to Saint Peter (recto)
Fragment of sketch of an ornamental frame (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1700-1778

Title

Christ giving the Keys to Saint Peter (recto)
Fragment of sketch of an ornamental frame (verso)

Date of Production

1715 - 1778

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto and verso), on laid paper, with a border support (historic) added on the verso

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 18.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4120

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

Reliable Venetian Hand, Venice (1770s-1780s), L.3005c-d; Juan Jorge Peoli, New York (1825-1893), L.2020; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 4 March 1949, lot 38 (with D.1952.RW.4117 and 6 others); purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£7.35); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Disegni di una Collezione Veneziana del Settecento, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Venice, 1966

Literature

Disegni di una collezione veneziana del settecento, Istituto di Stora dell'Arte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1966
no. 120
ill.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, Reliable Venetian Hand: “Gaetano Zompini da Nervesa.”. Support (historic), Verso: repeated at upper and lower centre, graphite: “#5”; left centre edge, graphite: “Open”; lower left edge, graphite: “123”; lower right edge, brown ink (the full stops added in graphite): “C.I.R.” [not on Lugt].

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink: handwriting of Reliable Venetian Hand (L.3005c-d). Verso: lower left, stamped in purple ink: Juan Jorge Peoli (L.2020). Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Stamp: probably on former frame but now removed and mounted with the drawing, customs stamp from 1960s exhibition in Italy: purple stamp with city of Rome on a head, with stamped lettering: “cy / MERCI / DOGANA ITALIANA / VISITATE / 11902 //”.

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