drawing; sketch-book

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Object Type: drawing; sketch-book
Museum number: 1957,1214.207.22
Description: Christ carrying the Cross, at right, after Titian; Entombement, at left, after Dirck van Baburen; leaf from the Italian Sketchbook (containing 121 leaves) Pen and brown ink; black chalk, traced over in pen and black ink by a later hand Verso: Christ carrying the Cross; after Sebastiano del Piombo Pen and brown ink
Producer name: Drawn by: Anthony van Dyck; After: Titian; After: Dirck van Baburen; After: Sebastiano del Piombo
School/style
Production date: 1614-1641
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 199 millimetres; Width: 155 millimetres (sight measurement)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See Curatorial comment for BM 1957-12-14-207.1. The drawing on the recto right is related, in reverse, to Titian's painting at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, inv.no.P00438. The drawing on the recto left (partly obscured) is related to Dirck van Baburen's 1617 painting in the Pieta Chapel in San Pietro in Montorio, Rome; see W. Franits, 'The paintings of Dirck van Buburen: Catalogue raisonné', Amsterdam-Philadelphia, 2013; cat.no.A3 (replica 11). The verso drawing is after Sebastiano del Piombo's painting now at the Museo del Prado, inv.no.P00345.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: road to calvary; entombment
Associated names
Associated places: Associated with: Italy
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Peter Lely (L.2092); Previous owner/ex-collection: Hugh Howard; Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel William Reynolds I; Previous owner/ex-collection: George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (purchased from Reynolds); Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry Agar-Ellis, 3rd Viscount Clifden (inherited from Dover); Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry George Agar-Ellis, 4th Viscount Clifden (Christie's, 6.v.1893/36 #120.5s.6d); Previous owner/ex-collection: Desprez (purchased at Clifden sale); Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles Fairfax Murray; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Herbert Cook (returned to Devonshire family); Previous owner/ex-collection: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
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: 1957,1214.207.22

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