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Madonna and Child and young Saint John the Baptist

Maker

(artist)
1577-1668

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1656-1727

Title

Date of Production

1590 - 1668

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on brown-prepared laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 17.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.669

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, lot 3 (according to the mount inscription, although the lot only lists 3 drawings and those would seem to be over accounted for already by D.1952.RW.667, 667.1, 667.2 and 668); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (7 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “Burini.”; lower right edge, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: “[…] San Antonio”. Mount (historic), Verso: lower centre, graphite: “Morrison Sale / May 23. 22 / No 3 / (7) 669 //”; lower right corner, graphite, cut off: “#”.

Collector's mark: none.

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