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Perspective drawing and plan of the fountain of the Cortile del Belvedere

Maker

After
Carlo Maderno (artist)
1555-1629

Title

Perspective drawing and plan of the fountain of the Cortile del Belvedere

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 42.5 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.73

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

C. Apcher (London); purchased there by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), n.d.; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: "853."; upper centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "fontana Alta nel teatro o Cortile di Belvedere, A alla Fino à 35. P[ie]d[i]". Verso: lower left, graphite, mostly erased and hard to read: "19 53" [?]; lower right, graphite: "DM 336". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file): graphite, Blunt’s hand: “Fontana Alta nel teatro o Cortile di Belvedere, dalla / A alla – no à 35.pd. //”.

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