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Design for a decorated dish - frieze with Neptune and Amphitrite

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1573/75-1632

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1606-1669

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1570-1634

Title

Design for a decorated dish - frieze with Neptune and Amphitrite

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash on laid paper, cut into a circle and executed with a compass, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Diameter: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4211

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

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Provenance

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798), L.2117, 2118, 2034, 3003; Konstantinoff (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£4, as by Pieter de Jode); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

De Floris à Roubens. Dessins de Maitres d’une Collection Particulière Belge, Musées Royaux de Beaux Artes de Belgique, Brussels, 20 Jan-15 May 2016
p. 219
fig. 2 on p. 220
as by de Jode

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 61

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre, too indistinct (Peter Bower was likewise unable to identify it).

Inscription: Verso: centre, red ink, probably Ploos van Amstel's hand, with a small bird in brown ink drawn over it: "Petrus de Jode F / geb: 1575 / gestorven / Diam. 8 3/4.d / b: iN: 19."; lower left, graphite: "30"; lower left edge, brown ink: "1011".

Collector's mark: Verso: left centre edge, blindstamped: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (L.2034); left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); centre, pen and red ink (transcribed under Inscription): Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (L.2117, 2118, 3003).

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