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Study with Temptation of Adam and Eve (recto)
Figure study of Eve (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1530-1593

Title

Study with Temptation of Adam and Eve (recto)
Figure study of Eve (verso)

Date of Production

(circa) 1575

Medium

red chalk, graphite, pen and brown ink, with graphite framing lines on the right and lower edges (recto), traces of graphite and red chalk (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 25.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.103

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

Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan (1784-1863), L.1223 (lower left on recto and verso); Captain Carlo Prayer, Milan (1826-1900), L.2044 (lower right); Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 103
pl. LXIII
dated c. 1575

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge: small curved line, too fragmentary to identify.

Inscription: Recto: upper left, erased and rewritten just below, red chalk: “G 325” (Vallardi's number). Verso: right lower edge, graphite: “525”; lower right, graphite: “No. 80”; lower right corner, graphite: “3”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in blue: Giuseppe Vallardi (L.1223); lower right corner, stamped in red: Carlo Prayer (L.2044). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in blue: Giuseppe Vallardi (L.1223).

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