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Museum number: 1860,0616.16
Title: Series: Disegni originali d'eccellenti pittori
Description: A concert from a balcony; a musician at centre playing a lute, ornamental architecture with torsos in niches, masks and acanthus decoration below Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over stylus, on light grey-brown prepared paper
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Production date: 1590-1623
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Dimensions: Height: 403 millimetres; Width: 265 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects: concert; musician
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Samuel Woodburn; Purchased through: Christie's (5.vi.1860/part of lot 221 as Brizio 'A concert on a balcony, F. BRIZZIO; studies of heads, BANDINI; and various', 5 in the lot, bt Tiffin £2-12-6); Purchased through: Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Pierre Crozat (In Crozat sale, 10.iv - 13.v 1741, part of lots 575-7); Previous owner/ex-collection: Jean Denis Lempereur (24.v.1773, part of lot 188 as Canuti 'Un Concert: dessin à la plume & lavé; plus deux autres dessins... de Pocetti' bt Donjeu); Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (6.ii.1786, lot 252 (framed) as Canuti 'Concert de musicines dans une tribune. Dessiné à la plume, lavé d'encre de la Chine, de 12p. de large, sur 14p.91 de haut' bt l'abbé de Calonne); Previous owner/ex-collection: Count Moritz Christian Johann von Fries (L.2903); Previous owner/ex-collection: Marquis de Lagoy (L.1710); Previous owner/ex-collection: Anon Lugt 3000; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445)
Acquisition date: 1860
Acquisition notes: Crozat and Lempereur according to inscription. Inscribed on back of mount: "Brizio Cabt Crozat et Lempereur", "Collection Crozat et Lempereur" and "à la vente de ch de S. Maurice de [...]" Bernadette Py from the Louvre kindly supplied details of the Lempereur and Saint-Morys sale.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1860,0616.16

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