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Design for a ceiling decoration

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1525-1575

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1501-1547

Title

Design for a ceiling decoration

Date of Production

(circa) 1550 - 1560

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 23 cm
Width: 32.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.461

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

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 December 1921 (as by Perino); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£1.3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta, 'Addenda a Luzio Luzzi disegnatore' in 'Bollettino d'Arte', Apr.-Jun 2001 - pp. 39-78; 116
pp. 67-68
Illus. no. 44 on p. 68
as Luzio Luzzi

Pouncey, Philip and J.A. Gere, Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Raphael and his circle, London 1962
pp. 111-12 under no. 186
attr. to Luzio Romano

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: two crossed arrows (matches Briquet 6272 except ours has a chain line as midline – Treviso 1464).

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, black ink: “53”; centre, brown ink: “Pierino”. Verso (hidden under support, visible via transmitted light): centre: ink: “Pierino”. Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: “461”; lower right, brown ink, album page number when oriented portrait rather than current landscape: “87”.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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