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Study for an angel in 'The Resurrection'

Maker

(artist)
1519-1594

Title

Date of Production

1578 - 1581

Medium

charcoal, a few touches of white chalk, squared for transfer in charcoal, on brown coarse paper, with traces of brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 27.4 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.101

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 (lower left); Frank Jewett Mather Jr., Princeton, New Jersey (1868-1953), by 1944 (when published in Tietze and Tietze as in his collection); Thomás Harris, London and Majorca (1908-1964); purchased from him by Savile Gallery (London) (according to 2018-19 exh. cat.); Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965), by 18 August 1949 (letter in file); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), September 1949 (£270); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Tintoretto 500th Anniversary, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 01/09/2018-31/12/2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 24/03/2019-30/06/2019; Accademia, Venice, 01/09/2018-31/12/2018

Literature

Echols, Robert and Ilchman, Frederick, Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, exh.cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice), New Haven and London: Yale Univeristy Press, 2018
pp. 187-188, 205, 263
fig. 171 on p. 186

Rearick, William R., Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, 2001
p. 228n252

Romanelli, Giandomenico, Tintoretto: la Scuola grande di San Rocco, Milan 1994
p. 24 ...More

Rossi, Paola, I disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto, corpus graphichum, Florence 1975
pp. 43-44
fig. 114

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 101

Bean, Jacob, Italian drawings in the Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton University 1966
p. 21 under no. 11
as whereabouts unknown

Pallucchini, Rodolfo, 'Una collezione italiana a Londra' in 'Arte Veneta', 1959-60; XIII-XIV
p. 256

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 101
pl. LXI
dated 1578-81

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
p. 188 under no. 248

Tietze, H., Tintoretto, London 1948
p. 376

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1712, p. 289
pl. CVIII
their pl. caption erroneously confuses this drawing with their no. 1758, a companion drawing in Princeton ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: 6-pointed star above a circle containing an anchor (closest match is Briquet 486 - dated 1559/61).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed, same hand as on D.1978.PG.368: “G Tintoretto”. Verso: lower right, graphite, modern hand: “Pawn [illegible word] 7 [circled] 21 x 16”

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