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Bull baiting (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1712-1793

(artist)
1764-1835

Title

Date of Production

1782

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, executed using a compass, with brown ink framing lines on the left and right edges (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.9 cm
Width: 28.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.139

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

Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1889-1980) (according to Christopher Norris); Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), by 1935 (seen there by Christopher Norris, though he wasn't sure Douglas owned it); Christopher Norris, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey (1907-1987) (his letter in object file); presumably purchased from him via Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 20 February 1940 (£157.10s); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

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

Literature

Byam Shaw, James, 'Francesco Guardi' in 'Old Master Drawings', 1934; IX
p. 50
pl. 49

Mongan, Agnes and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, Mass. 1946
p. 162 under no. 319

Byam Shaw, James, The drawings of Francesco Guardi, London 1951
p. 69 under no. 43 ...More

Byam Shaw, J., 'Unpublished Guardi drawings' in 'Art Quarterly', 1953; XVI
p. 279

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 139
pl. XCIX (recto)

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, La Civiltà veneziana del Settecento, Florence 1960
fig. 15 (recto)

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 139

Drawings from New York Collections: 18th century in Italy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971
p. 88 under no. 209

Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
under cat. 268 p. 124
Fig. 270

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 27

Bean, Jacob and William Griswold, 18th century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1990
p. 113 under no. 95

Sotheby's (London), Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I, 6 July 2023.
cat. no. 215 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper centre edge, fragment: halves of three stacked crescent moons (no exact match in Heawood but see e.g. Heawood 867 - Venice 1696).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, signed (Byam Shaw confirmed artist's hand): "Fco. Guardi".

Collector's mark: none.

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