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Angel blowing a pipe (recto)

Maker

Tanzio da Varallo (artist)
born 1575-1580, died 1632-1633 (Life dates)

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1489-1534

Title

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

red chalk on red-prepared laid paper, cut out around figure's silhouette and inlaid by Seilern into another sheet of red-prepared laid paper (recto), red chalk on laid paper (verso, which has no red preparation)

Dimensions

Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 15.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.353

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

Helene de Beer, London (1898-1984); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 5 May 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 May 1960 (£200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 353
pl. XXXV (recto), fig. 56 (verso)
dated 1526-30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: original sheet, left lower edge, too fragmentary to identify. Sheet into which original drawing inlaid: right centre edge: too fragmentary to identify – perhaps claws of a bird or basilisk?

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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