Study of two horsemen

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld

Maker

(artist)
1471-1528

Title

Study of two horsemen

Date of Production

1493 - 1494

Medium

traces of red ink (more red ink is visible on the verso via transmitted light), pen and brown ink, brown wash, with some strokes of grey wash, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 12.1 cm

Object Number

D.1978.PG.252

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

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Inscriptions

Watermark: upper centre: half of Briquet 2541, scales in circle surmounted by a star - on paper dating 1498, 1504 and 1508 from Italy and Germany - the other half shared by the sheet in the Albertina (see Notes).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in gold: unidentifed collector (L.2798).

Inscription: Verso (hidden under mount, visible via transmitted light, see photos): centre, brown ink: “Albert Durer”; lower left edge, brown ink: “AT”. Mount (historic), Recto, all graphite, modern hand: lower centre: “Albrecht DÜRER”; lower right: “Dürer”, “S. Beham / T”, “A.E.S. / C.S.”.

Provenance

John Skippe (1741-1812), associated with unidentified collector’s mark L.2798 (lower right); presumably acquired by him in Italy between 1773 and 1781 [as per Lugt 2798, 1956]; presumably by descent to his sister, Penelope Martin; by descent to her son, James Martin; by descent to Edward Holland (d. 1916); by descent to his sister, Mrs J. Rayner-Wood; by descent to Edward Holland-Martin; his sale, Christie's (London), 20 - 21 November 1958, lot 299 (repr.); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 21 November 1958 (£4,200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Special Display - German drawings, Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/06/2007-23/09/2007

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982

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Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13/08/1953-25/10/1953

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Literature

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 4
ill. on p. 14

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 162

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 252
pl. LXXVIII
as Dürer, c. 1493-94

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Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953
cat. no. 219

Panofsky, E., Albrecht Dürer, London, 2nd ed. 1945
Handlist no. 1234
as by another hand

Dodgson, Campbell, Old Master Drawings, 1939; XIV
p. 14
pl. 11

Winkler, Friedrich, Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers, 4 vols., Berlin 1936-1939
vol. IV (1939) , no. 949
ill.

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