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Study for Virgin's hands in the Adoration of the Magi

Maker

(artist)
1555-1619

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1585 - 1590

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 24.1 cm
Width: 31.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4198

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

Padre Sebastiano Resta, Milan (1635-1714) (his album D); purchased from him by Henry Newton in Rome, 1712 on behalf of John, Lord Somers (1650-1716); his estate sale, Motteu (London), 5 May 1717 (any one of nine lots listing Carracci); an anonymous lady's sale, Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1949, lot 8; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952 The above provided by Jeremy Wood in his 1996 Master Drawings article 'Padre Resta as a collector of Carracci drawings', p. 36.

Exhibition History

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968 ...More

The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961

Mostra dei Carracci, Bologna & Italy, 1956 ...Less

Literature

Bohn, Babette, Ludovico Carracci and the art of drawing, Turnhout, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004
no. 103
ill. on p. 230

Wood, Jeremy, 'Padre Resta as collector of Carracci drawings' in 'Master Drawings', 1996 - 3-71; 34
p. 49
fig. 31 on p. 48

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 1 ...More

Mostra dei Carracci: disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956
no. 25
pl. 9 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, left centre: circle with a double border, unable to see what it contains due to mount – perhaps an eagle? Mount (historic), Verso, left centre (only visible with raking light): Pro Patria.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, maybe Padre Resta's hand?: “pure di Lodovico Carracci“; lower right, brown ink, Resta-Somers number, L.2198: “D.60“. Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre and lower right, graphite, the section at lower right erased: “Sothy. 13 July. 49. lot 8 Liber D.60 Padre Resta Padre Resta Coll". Mount (historic), Verso: upper right, graphite, instruction to framer: “Overmt"; left centre, brown ink, Richardson transcribing Somers's shelfmark, see Wood 1996 p.49n200: “F F.31."; lower right, graphite: “1851"; lower right edge, brown ink, upside down: “2 – 6"; lower right corner, graphite, number cut off by tape: “#1[...]".

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