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Entombment

Maker

Francesco dai Libri, the elder (artist)
1452-1502

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1431-1506

Formerly attributed to
Bernardino Butinone (artist)
1450-1510

Title

Entombment

Date of Production

1480 - 1500

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment, with added gold leaf borders, laid down on modern mount

Dimensions

Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.346

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

possibly Don Domenico Ricci, Treviso [according to Crowe and Cavalcaselle 1912, who said the present owner was unknown; also uncertain whether this is the miniature to which the text refers]; John Walter, by November 1959 [when it was removed from the cover of his copy of William Roscoe's 'Works', this volume of which was then sold separately at Sotheby's on 12 November 1959, lot 56a]; his subsequent sale, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1960, lot 249; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 5 February 1960 (£1,800); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Old Master drawings, Colnaghi, London, 28/04/1960-28/05/1960

Literature

The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, The Royal Academy, London, 1994 Munich 1994
p. 219 under no. 114

Lightbown, Ronald, Mantegna: with a complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and prints, Oxford 1986
pl. 254
as after Mantegna

Miniatura Veronese del Rinascimento, Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona, 1986, 1986
pp. 83, 85
fig. III.49 on p. 86
attributed to Francesco dai Libri and dated to last 20 years of 15th century ...More

Braham, Helen, The Princes Gate Collection [all Princes Gate works, the exhibited drawings listed separately as Selection A and Selection B], London, 1981
no. 41
ill. on p. 27
not exhibited; listed as follower of Mantegna

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 346
pl. XXVII
as follower of Mantegna, dated c. 1480-1500

Crowe, J.A. and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A history of painting in North Italy, London 1912
vol. II, p. 172n1?
Popham suggested this is a ref. to PG.346 but that is not certain; places it in coll. of Ricci ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: n/a.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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