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Seated lion

Maker

(artist)
1729-1804

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1712-1793

Title

Seated lion

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey and black wash, white bodycolour on laid paper prepared with a pink wash
Watemark: none.

Dimensions

Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.133

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

Vicomte Philogène de Montfort, Paris (1806-1883), L.1035; possibly Ary Johannes Lamme, Rotterdam (1812-1900), L.138 [location and dimensions of the collector's mark differ from those given by Lugt]; Stephen Higgins (Paris); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 April 1957; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 3 May 1957 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 133
pl. XCIII
as by Guardi, before 1760

Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
no. 445
fig. 447
as by Guardi

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 35 ...More

Byam Shaw, James and George Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection. Italian Eighteenth-century drawings, Princeton 1987; 6
pp. 79-80 under no. 64
as by Novelli ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "Borou C1" [same word on PG.133.1]; lower centre, graphite: "197"; lower centre edge, graphite, rest of word abraded away: "B[..]".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: possibly Ary Johannes Lamme (L.138) [Lugt says it is usually stamped on the verso, and is 10 x 10 mm, while this is 12 x 12 mm]. Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Vicomte Philogène de Montfort (L.1035).

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