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Front and side elevation of the boxes at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples

Maker

France mid-18th century (artist)

Title

Front and side elevation of the boxes at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples

Date of Production

1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 47.3 cm
Width: 33.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.115

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), n.d.; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: right centre, brown ink: “Elévation du Théatre [previous two words crossed through] des Loges / du théatre St Charles à Naples.”; lower centre, brown ink: “4 pd. 5” accompanied by arrows, and below that a line labelled “6 pi.”; left centre edge, black ink: “6” [or could read “5”]; left lower edge, brown ink: “Théatre”. Verso: lower centre, brown ink, calculations, probably by the artist: “28 / 9 / [sum line] 118”, “2 / 8 / 9 / [sum line] 9”; “2J[?]”; lower left, graphite, “Illegible” with two arrows pointing toward the three-line inscription in the lower left corner, also graphite and mostly illegible, in French as can only make out “pour”; lower right, graphite: “82-1 + 92-30”; lower right corner, graphite: “P + Px”.

Collector's mark: none.

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