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Studies of a calf

Maker

(artist)
1510-1592

Title

Studies of a calf

Medium

black chalk on laid paper, cut into an irregular octagon, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 33.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.WF.4669

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

presumably Zaccaria Sagredo (1653 – 1729); John Skippe (1741-1812), presumably acquired in Italy between 1773 and 1781; presumably by descent to his sister, Penelope Martin; by descent to her son, James Martin; by descent to Edward Holland (d. 1916); by descent to his sister Mrs J. Rayner-Wood; by descent to her nephew Edward Holland-Martin; his sale, Christie's (London), 20 November 1958, lot 28; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of the Courtauld Gallery via the Witt Fund, for £105

Exhibition History

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

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

Literature

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 16

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 12

Rearick, William R., Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, 2001
p. 180
attributed to Carletto Caliari ...More

Meijer, Bert W., Il disegno Veneziano, 1580-1650. Ricostruzioni storico-artistiche, Florence 2017
p. 105n70

Chris Fischer, Venetian Drawings - Italian drawings in the Royal Collection of Graphic Art, Statens Museum fur Kunst 2018
p. 56-8
ill. on p. 18 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Bassan

Inscription: [...]aca

Inscription: inscription : chalk (black) : centre & recto : : R

Inscription: A

Inscription: B

Inscription: R

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