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Death of Saint Catherine of Siena

Maker

(artist)
1550-1606

Title

Death of Saint Catherine of Siena

Medium

chalk (black), pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19 cm
Width: 14.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4565

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 Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792); perhaps his estate sale, H. Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798 (any one of four lots listing Boscoli); Mrs H.F. Medlicott, Neuberg; her sale, Neate & Sons (Wiltshire), 14 April 1950, lot 305; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 26 November 1952, for £10; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Acquisition of Genius, Plymouth & Devon & England, 21/11/2009-21/02/2010

Literature

Sir Joshua Reynolds: the acquisition of genius, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2009
no. 58
ill. on p. 132

Brooks, Julian, The drawings of Andrea Boscoli (c.1560–1608), PhD thesis, University of Oxford 1999; 1
p. 347

Forlani, Anna, 'Andrea Boscoli' in 'Proporzioni', 1963 - 85-208; IV
no. 200

Inscriptions

Inscription: Boscoli

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364)

Inscription: Boscoli

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