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Architectural facade (after Serlio?)

Maker

(Artists)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(Artists)
1475-ca. 1554 (Life dates)

Title

Architectural facade (after Serlio?)

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey watercolour on laid paper, executed using a ruler; has been torn and separated down the centre, with several other losses, now rejoined and laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 40.3 cm
Width: 58.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.139

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




Provenance

David Thomson (d.2009); given by him to Professor Anthony Blunt, 1980; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Literature

Frommel, Sabine; trans. from German by Yves Pauwels, Sebastiano Serlio. Architecte de la Renaissance, Paris 2002 (Fr. trans.)
p. 239n59

Thomson, David, Renaissance Paris. Architecture and growth 1475-1600, London 1984
fig. 78

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: shield containing "B" topped with a crown and fleur-de-lis, above a banderole containing a name: "NICOLAS LEBE" [i think, check Briquet]

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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