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Standing figure of a youth

Maker

After
(artist)
1560-1609

formerly attributed to
(artist)
1628-1719

Title

Standing figure of a youth

Medium

red and black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.1 cm
Width: 28.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1972.WF.4763

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1972

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Notes

Copy after a drawing by Annibale Carracci in the Uffizi Galleries, Florence, inv. 3656 S, which is related to his painting of Latona transforming the peasants of Lycia into frogs (the painting is in the archbishop's palace in Kromeriz, Moravia).

Provenance

Mrs S. Miskelly, High Banton, Scotland; purchased from her via the Witt Fund, November 1972

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: oval containing cross above letters “IHS”, 5 cm high x 3.7 cm wide (variant of Heawood 2974 - dated after 1578 - but more oval and larger).

Inscription: Di Carlo Cigniani

Inscription: U.176

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