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Design for an altar incorporating a painting of the Madonna of the Rosary and two female saints

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Design for an altar incorporating a painting of the Madonna of the Rosary and two female saints

Date of Production

1680 - 1700

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 36.8 cm
Width: 24.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.78

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

from an album compiled and partly drawn by Pier Leone Ghezzi, Rome (1674-1755), probably mid-18th century (several sheets in the Blunt collection belonged to this album); probably Christie’s (London), 1939-41; Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 1941; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (album page), left centre: circle containing a fleur-de-lis, above the letter "B" (similar to the countermark of Heawood 1572 (Rome 1713) but with the "B" below rather than above).

Inscription: Support (album page, removed but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: upper right, brown ink: "3"; lower right corner, graphite, mostly erased and illegible: "Lot [...] I / £2.10 //"; written over the previous inscription, graphite: "30". Support (album page, removed but still mounted with the drawing), Verso: upper centre edge, graphite, Blunt's hand: "?? Neapolitan / near early Solimena (cf drawing of like Apotheosis of a Saint at the Shipman Gally / identified by Vitzthum as S's earliest drawing). //"; upper left, graphite: "C / photo'd- / no neg. no //"; lower left edge, graphite: "Blunt 78". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file): graphite, Blunt's hand: "? Carapecchia".

Collector's mark: none.

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