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Massacre of the Niobids - after part of Polidoro da Caravaggio's fresco on the façade of Palazzo Milesi, Rome

Maker

(artist)
1510-1561

After
(artist)
1499-1543

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1541 - 1543

Medium

chalk (black), pen and ink (brown), wash (brown), bodycolour (white) on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 47.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.WF.4675

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

Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (lower right; untraced in Crozat's 1741 catalogue); Mrs de Bier; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 14 October 1958; purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, 27 October 1958, for £25 Bernadette Py was unable to reconcile this drawing with any of those listed in Crozat's 1741 sale cataogue (http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2015/Catalogue_Crozat/index.html).

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Py, Bernadette, Les dessins italiens de Pierre Crozat (1665-1740). L'oeil de Mariette, http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2015/Catalogue_Crozat
p. 478
drawing not identified by Py in Crozat's catalogue

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 6

Lauder, Anne Varick, Battista Franco (c.1510-1561): his life and work with catalogue raisonne, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005
p. 114 and no. 352 DA
fig. 650

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: monogram: “AB.” [not on Lugt]; lower right corner, brown ink, Crozat number: “86”; upper left corner, graphite: “2”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: “Battista Franco - (AEP) / after part of Polidoro's fresco on the facade of Palazzo Milesi / Via Maschera d'Oro, Rome. //”; upper right, blue crayon, faded/erased: “20”; upper right, graphite: “lot 56 / 21666/56 / arq 2085/20p //”; right centre, graphite: “451. / Ecole du Raphael Sanzio / Fresque composee de pleusurs [sic] personnes: / un moine imore par une foule, garcon tenant / un cheval, groupe de femmes / Lavis de bistre rehausse de blanc. //”; lower right corner, graphite, crossed through: “arq 621/20”; lower right corner, graphite: “38”; lower centre, graphite: “CL”; verso, upper left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4675”.

Stamp: II/66

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, written in brown: Pierre Crozat (L.3612).

Label: Small sheet of paper possibly used as material for restoration.

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