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Hercules and Cacus

Maker

After
(artist)
1557-1602

Title

Hercules and Cacus

Date of Production

(circa) 1593 - 1595

Medium

graphite and pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, spattered with black ink droplets, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 35 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.667.1

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

Mrs Jean Miller Morrison, Edinburgh; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 23 May 1922, accompanying lot 3 as a 'document'; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Counterfeits, Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924

Literature

Counterfeits, Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924
cat. no. 313a
no. 313a

Inscriptions

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, dark brown ink, first name added in graphite: Lod Carracci.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, dark brown ink: 6.v W. L.t 13 oc.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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