drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1957,1214.207.111
- Description
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Venus undressing, at top; Venus and the organ players, at bottom, after Titian; leaf from van Dyck's Italian Sketchbook (containing 121 leaves)
Pen and brown ink
Verso: a woman in a Venetian dress and three nuns, in full-length
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1614-1641
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 152 millimetres (sight measurement)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Curatorial comment for BM 1957-12-14-207.1.
The bottom recto drawing is after Titian's painting now at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, inv.no.P00420.
Literature: Elizabeth McGrath, 'Una striga in Palermo: a Sicilian document from the Italian Sketchbook', in Hans Vlieghe (ed.), "Van Dyck 1599-1999: conjectures and refutations", Turnhout, 2001, p.45, verso repr. fig.3 (folios 111v-112r datable 20 June 1622 or 1623); P. Rumberg and D. Shawe-Taylor, 'Charles I: King and Collector', London, Royal Academy, 2018, cat. no. 77.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018 27 Jan-15 Apr, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Charles I: The King's Pictures
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- Acquisition notes
- See Acquisition history in BM 1957-12-14-207.1 for further details of provenance.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1957,1214.207.111
