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Acidia vestita di nero - Sloth seated on a donkey

Maker

(artist)
1575-1642

Title

Acidia vestita di nero - Sloth seated on a donkey

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic support with added brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 13.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4464

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

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Acidia vestita di nero - Sloth seated on a donkey

Provenance

Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Paris then London (1743-1795), L.474 (lower right); by descent to his son, Charles Étienne de Bourgevin Vialart (1772–1817); his sale, H. Phillips, 10-14 June 1797, 1st day, lot 63 (as inscribed on verso); purchased there by Phillips [see transcript of sale in Brooks and Lee supplement, 2021]; F.A. Drey (London); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Brooks, Julian and Casey Lee, "The Identification of the 'Pseudo-Crozat' Mark (Lugt 474): Saint-Morys and Carrière' in 'Master Drawings', Autumn 2021 - pp. 391-409; LIX, 3
pp. 403-09
fig. 17 on p. 403

Brooks, Julian and Case Lee, 'Transcriptions of Auctioneer Henry Phillips’s Annotated Catalogues of the 1797 and 1799 Sales of the Drawings of the Comte de Carrière. Supplement to the article by Julian Brooks and Casey Lee...', 2021
p. 5n8
fig. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, left upper edge: fragment of a circle containing a sun with rays? (unclear).

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, brown ink: “Acidia vestita di nero”; lower right edge, brown ink: “Ag.o Caracci.”. Support (historic), Verso: upper centre, brown ink, reference to sale of Saint-Morys's collection in 1797: “Lt 63 1st day”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.474).

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