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View of the ruined Arch of Septimius Severus

Maker

(artist)
1566-c. 1612

After
(artist)
1550-1583

Formerly attributed to
Monogrammist C.P.

Title

View of the ruined Arch of Septimius Severus

Date of Production

4 May 1595

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.679

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by 1926; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Jaffe, Michael, The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, Turin, London and Venice, 2002
vol. II, p. 77
wrong date given

Schapelhouman, Marijn, Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksmuseum: Netherlandish drawings circa 1600, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1987
under no. 4
dated 1596

The age of Bruegel: Netherlandish drawings in the sixteenth century, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1986-87
under no. 18 ...More

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 23

Collections De Louis Xiv : Dessins, Albums, Manuscrits : Orangerie Des Tuileries, 7 Octobre 1977-9 Janvier 1978. 1977. Paris: Ministère de la culture : Ed. des musées nationaux.
reference p. 157

Pieter Bruegel der Altere als Zeichner, Herkunft und Nachfolge, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1975
p. 29 under no. 19
dated 7 April 1596

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133
as 16th-century Flemish

Lugt, Frits, Musée du Louvre: Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord, Paris 1949
p. 17 under no. 356
ill.
date erroneously read as 7 May 1956

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 551
as Monogrammist C.P.

Gaunt, William, Rome past and present, London 1926
pl. LII ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, left end of frieze above arch, brown ink: “M 5[…]”; centre on arch, brown ink: “GP [in monogram] / SPQR 1595 //”; within drawing, lower right, brown ink: “1595.4 mai”. Verso: lower left edge, graphite, faded and difficult to read: “M[…]land” [?].

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

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