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Design for the altar wall of a chapel with angels playing music

Maker

Italy Mid/Late 16th century (artist)
1550-1599

Title

Design for the altar wall of a chapel with angels playing music

Date of Production

1550 - 1599

Medium

red chalk, traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on brown laid paper, the top cut into an arch, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.24

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

Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic), lower centre: a circle, unable to see what it contains.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: "75"; lower right, graphite, erased: "£4.10.-"; lower right edge, graphite, erased: "Lot 42[?]7"; lower right corner, graphite: "26".

Collector's mark: none.

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