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Thetis entrusting Achilles to the Centaur Chiron

Maker

(artist)
1568-1640

Title

Thetis entrusting Achilles to the Centaur Chiron

Date of Production

1620 - 1625

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper, laid down and inlaid into a border mount; the original sheet is in poor condition with large areas of loss that have been made up on the backing sheet

Dimensions

Height: 34.3 cm
Width: 41.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4400

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

Literature

Röttgen, Herwarth, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino: un grande pittore nello splendore della fama e nell'incostanza della fortuna, Rome 2002
p. 436, no. 204b

Bolzoni, Marco Simone, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino, Rome, Ugo Bozzi Editore 2013
pp. 8, 123 and no. 254 on p. 368
fig. 102 on p. 123 and no. 254 on p. 368

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to see any as is laid down and badly deteriorated.

Inscription: Border Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “G. Darpino”; lower centre, brown ink: “16 / Caval. ‘Darpino’”; lower centre, graphite: [check mark] “1560-1640”; lower right corner, graphite, Witt’s hand: “Giuseppe Cesari”. Verso (backing sheet): upper left corner, brown ink, a former owner's initials and inventory number perhaps?: “H.A.M.Br.[?] / No 22. [this number crossed out] 52.”; lower centre, graphite: “[iillegible] + Centaur S.”; lower right corner, graphite: “138” accompanied with initials (an illegible scribble?). Border Mount (historic), Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “8” and Witt number “4400”.

Collector's mark: none.

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