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Design for a chest, with a scene representing the Continence of Scipio (recto)
Sketch of a building (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1525-1575

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1501-1547

Title

Design for a chest, with a scene representing the Continence of Scipio (recto)
Sketch of a building (verso)

Date of Production

(circa) 1550 - 1560

Medium

black chalk, grey wash (recto), red chalk (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.466

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





Label Text

This design shows an elaborate carved cassone, embellished with grottesco ornament and figures, which are both nude and clothed according to classical tradition. The chest was perhaps intended to be made from walnut, which was used typically for cassoni in the later 16th century. The inscription ‘Pierino’ on the bottom of the sheet was added by a former owner attributing the design to the painter Perino del Vaga who most famously worked with Raphael on the decoration of the Vatican in Rome.

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; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£1.3); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Summer Showcase - Unfinished, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015

Special Display - Renaissance drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/2009-20/05/2009

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 28/10/1979-27/01/1980 ...More

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA, 18/11/1958-04/01/1959 ...Less

Literature

Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta, 'Addenda a Luzio Luzzi disegnatore' in 'Bollettino d'Arte', Apr.-Jun 2001 - pp. 39-78; 116
pp. 67, 78 note 100
as Luzio Luzzi

Piero Boccardo, Andrea Doria e le Arti: Committenza e Mecenatismo a Genova, Roma, Palombi 1989
p. 77, fig. 80
Illus. p. 78

Gloria dell'Arte, Philbrook Art Centre, Tulsa, 1979 / 1980
cat. no. 71 ...More

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 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “Pierino”.

Label: Sheet of buff coloured paper. Possibly used as restoration material. Collectors stamp for Robert Witt.

Collector's mark: none.

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