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Virgin appearing to a saint

Maker

(artist)
1609-1675

Title

Medium

red chalk on laid paper; red chalk offset on the verso suggests it spent some time laid on top of another red chalk drawing, though the design is mostly illegible

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 23.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4236

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: large crown with a large central point ending a circle, flanked by four smaller points ending in circles, and with two outer points exaggeratedly curved (no match found in Heawood, Piccard or Briquet).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, pen and ink [same hand that added initials on other Dandini sheets in the collection]: "V. D. v."; lower left, pen and ink: "Virgin + Child / Vincenzo Dandini._"; lower left edge, graphite: "open"; lower right corner, graphite [written twice]: "#2" Mount (removed): Verso: lower right, graphite: "V / Warm L / #2"

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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