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Design for an overdoor, with the eagle of the Borghese arms

Maker

Studio of
Flaminio Ponzio (artist)
1560-1613

Title

Design for an overdoor, with the eagle of the Borghese arms

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 13.4 cm
Width: 20.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.56

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


overdoors


Provenance

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, graphite: "Giradon". Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "5.7."; upper centre edge, graphite: "5"; upper right edge, graphite: "97/34/3"; right upper edge, brown ink: "..". Mount (missing, recorded in file), Verso: Blunt’s hand: “Probably one of a pair of Borghese arms for the doors to the oval staircase in Palazzo Borghese 1605-12 cf. Hibbard, Palazzo Borghese, fig. 62 and p. 50 / but not […] for a lunette. The staircase was built 1608. //”.

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