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Sheet of figure studies representing Mars, Venus and Cupid, Diana and Actaeon (?) and Apollo (?)

Maker

(artist)
1623-1677

Title

Sheet of figure studies representing Mars, Venus and Cupid, Diana and Actaeon (?) and Apollo (?)

Date of Production

1647

Medium

red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 30.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4204

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








Label Text

This study presents a sampling of mythological gods (Mars, Venus and Cupid, Diana and Actaeon?, and possibly Apollo) inspired by Netherlandish printed prototypes. The figures are arranged in a coherent, carefully balanced composition. Their delicate modelling in red chalk attests to the artist’s sensitivity to the medium. Despite being prominently signed and dated by Antonio García Reinoso, the drawing was probably not executed as a finished work but as a model for workshop use.

Provenance

Konstantinoff (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain, British Museum, London, 20/09/2012-05/01/2013

The Spanish Line - From Ribera to Picasso, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/10/2011-15/01/2012

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May) ...More

A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956 ...Less

Literature

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain, British Museum, London, 2012-2013
p. 146
fig. 34 on p. 147

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 58
ill. on p. 183

The Spanish Manner: drawings from Ribera to Goya, Frick Collection, New York, 2010
p. 99
fig. 23 on p. 99 ...More

Navarrete Prieto, Benito and Fuensanta Torre de la Garcia, Antonio del Castillo, 1616-1668. Dibujos. Catálogo razonado, Santander 2008
pp. 153-55
fig. 55

Dibujos valencianos del siglo XVII, Seville, 1997
p. 104

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Historia del dibujo en España de la Edad media a Goya, Madrid 1986
pp. 309-10

López Torrijos, Rosa, 'Grabados y dibujos para lo entrada en Madrid de María Luisa de Orleans (1680)' in 'Archivo Español de Arte', 1985 - pp. 239-50; no. 231
p. 281

Brown, Jonathan, 'Drawings by Andalusian Masters' in 'Apotheca, Revista del Departamiento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Córdoba', 1983 - pp. 9-20; 3
pp. 10, 16

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 21

A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956
cat. no. 20

García de la Torre, Fuensanta, ‘Antonio García Reinoso: reflexiones sobre un dibujante Andaluz del siglo XVII / Antonio García Reinoso: reflections on a 17th-century Andalusian draftsman’ in 'Laboratorio de Arte' - pp. 183-206; 32
pp. 186-88
fig. 1 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: left of centre, red chalk, signed and dated by the artist: “Antto garcia / De Reinoso / nobienbre / 1647”.

Collector's mark: none.

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