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Grotesque combat

Maker

(artist)
1563-1595

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1518-1583

Title

Grotesque combat

Date of Production

1550 - 1555

Medium

black chalk, pen and black ink on parchment, with light brown ink framing lines, inset into a historic support along with D.1956.WF.4655, secured at all sides to the mount

Dimensions

Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1956.WF.4653

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1956

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Notes

Preparatory for the engraving by Etienne Delaune, in the same direction (one impression is in the British Museum inv. 1864,1114.548), part of a series of 8 prints. Another drawing for the series is in The Courtauld collection D.1956.WF.4655.

Provenance

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, November 1956

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

Literature

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 22a

The French Renaissance in Prints from the Biblioteque Nationale de France.
p. 358

Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Volume VI. French Ornament Drawings of the Sixteenth Century
p. 7 ...More

Christophe Pollet, Les gravures d'Etienne Delaune (1518-1583) (Villeneuve d'Asq Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2001)
vol. 1, pp. 224-5
no. 26
Reference to associated print

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 17, p. 42
ill. on p. 43
as Delaune ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: n/a.

Inscription: none visible on the recto, the verso is inaccessible.

Collector's mark: none visible on the recto, the verso is inaccessible.

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