Armorial design for the ‘Genealogie de la très-illustre, très-ancienne et autrefois souveraine maison de La Tour’
Maker
(artist)
1607-1678
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1596-1675
1607-1678
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1596-1675
Title
Armorial design for the ‘Genealogie de la très-illustre, très-ancienne et autrefois souveraine maison de La Tour’
Date of Production
1640 - 1678
Medium
graphite, black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on laid paper, incised for transfer, with added blue paper borders, the upper edge having been excised and then rejoined
Dimensions
Height: 45.1 cm
Width: 30.1 cm
Width: 30.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1984.AB.135
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
Keywords
armorials (reference sources)
Provenance
Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), by 1964; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984
Exhibition History
The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1964 (February)
Literature
Maurice, Jean Baptiste. Le Blason Des Armoires de tous les Chevaliers de L'Ordre de la Toison d'Or Depuis La Premiere Institution Iusques a present Avec Leurs Noms, Surnoms, Titres, Et Cartiers, Ensemble Leurs eloges Descrites En Bref Le Tout Recueilly (Brussels: Jean Rammazeyn, 1667)
D'haene, Virginie., Van Camp, An., and Van Ooteghem, Sarah. From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections. Belgium: Artha, 2023.
p.172 and p.173.
D'haene, Virginie., Van Camp, An., and Van Ooteghem, Sarah. From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections. Belgium: Artha, 2023.
p.172 and p.173.
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: upper centre: foolscap above three Medici balls (no matches to any in Heawood or Piccard, has 2.5 cm between chain lines).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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