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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

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

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.

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.

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