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Design for an altarpiece

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1622-1690

Title

Design for an altarpiece

Date of Production

(circa) 1620

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, cut into an arch with brown ink framing lines, executed using a stylus and ruler, the upper segment on a separate piece of paper joined

Dimensions

Height: 38.4 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4457

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

Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889-1956); Leo Franklyn (London) (?); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 48
ill. on p. 162

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: shield containing a fan or wing? surrounded by scrollwork (no match found in Piccard, Briquet or Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink: “26 Valdes Jaun de Valdez”; lower right corner, graphite: “15”. Verso: left lower edge, grey ink: “an”; lower left corner, graphite: “1”.

Collector's mark: none.

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