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Saint Domitilla between Saints Nereo and Achilleo

Maker

(artist)
1553-1626

Title

Saint Domitilla between Saints Nereo and Achilleo

Date of Production

(circa) 1596 - 1597

Medium

black chalk with stumping, black wash, traces of white chalk, on laid paper, squared in black chalk, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 26.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4370

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

Lord St Lawrence; presumably John Barnard, London (1709-1784); possibly his estate sale Greenwood (London) 16 - 24 February 1787, third evening, lot 28; Benjamin West, London (1738-1820), L.419; Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

From Raphael to Carracci: the Art of Papal Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 29/05/2009-07/09/2009

The Achievement of a Connoisseur: Philip Pouncey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 01/10/1985-01/12/1985

Literature

From Raphael to Carracci: the Art of Papal Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2009
no. 144
no. 144

The Achievement of a Connoisseur: Philip Pouncey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1985
cat. no. 55
no. 55
ill.

Sorio, Ileana Chiappni di, Cristoforo Roncalli detto il Pomarancio, Bergamo 1983
under no. 50 ...More

Kirwin, W. Chandler, 'The life and drawing style of Cristofano Roncalli' in 'Paragone', 1978; 335
pp. 34-40

Pouncey, Philip, 'Two drawings by Cristofano Roncalli', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 94, No. 597 (Dec., 1952), pp. 354+356-357+359
p. 356
fig. 69, p. 357 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: right and lower right edges, graphite, erased: “see / stamp / [...] Domenichino / 1581-1641 //”; Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: “580 / Lord St Lawrence Barnard Collections / From Mr. West’s Collection + Barnard Coll. //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped: Benjamin West (L.419). Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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