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Triumph in the name of the Baptist (formerly 'Presentation in the Temple')

Maker

Andrea Ansaldo (artist)
1584-1638

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1540-1619

Title

Triumph in the name of the Baptist (formerly 'Presentation in the Temple')

Date of Production

1555 - 1619

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on buff laid paper, laid down, with heavy brown ink framing lines on three sides

Dimensions

Height: 30.6 cm
Width: 17.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4382

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

Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio, Turin (1719-1795), L.545; probably purchased from him (along with 17 paintings and 330 drawings) by Marchese Giovanni Turinetti di Priero, 28 March 1794; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 April 1950, lot 10 (as 'Birth of Samuel and his dedication to the herd' by Calvaert); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£7.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 10
as by Calvaert

Newcome, Mary, 'Ansaldo revisited' in 'Paragone', 1987 - 61-74; 38
pp. 63-64, 71, n. 22
fig. 44
as by Ansaldo ...More

Boggero, Franco, San Giovanni Battista di Loano, 1990
pp. 42-43
fig. 26
as by Ansaldo

Priarone, Margherita, Andrea Ansaldo 1584-1638, Genoa 2011
no. 11D
ill. on p. 344
as by Ansaldo ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, brown ink: “no 3”. Mount (removed, recorded in file): lower left, pen and ink: “Dionigi Calvart".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio (L.545).

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