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Continence of Scipio (recto)

Maker

Circle of
(artist)
1659-1734

Title

Continence of Scipio (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1700

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 23.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.125

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

Artaria & Co. (Vienna), L.90 (verso; this mark used from about 1820, according to Lugt); Gustav Nebehay (dealer), Vienna (1881-1935); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, Vienna and then London (1901-1978), between 1933-35 (according to Seilern's typewritten notes); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 125
pl. LXXXV
as Circle of Ricci, c. 1700 or later

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in purple [though Lugt says only black]: Artaria & Co. (L.90).

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, brown ink: “tintoreto”; lower right corner, brown ink: "A 79". Verso: centre, graphite: “456”; lower left, brown ink sums: “36:16 / 19:5 / 9:15 [sum line] 29:-”; lower centre, brown ink: “tintoreto fe”; lower right, brown ink: “2f.”; lower left corner, brown ink, underlined twice: “n80”; lower centre edge, brown ink: “Go 160” and adjacent to that in graphite, Seilern thought could be the hand of Karl Garzarolli-Thurnlack: “(Garz.) Seb. Ricci Venedig 1659-1734”; lower right corner, graphite: “7”.

Label: Mount (removed): Verso: centre, stamped in blue: Export stamp showing eagle within a triangle and wording: "von der zentralstelle für denkmalschutz zur ausfuhr freigegeben"

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