drawing
- Museum number
- Pp,3.193
- Description
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A betrothal in the presence of the Doge; the couple kneeling to face one another, a group of figures behind them and a woman kneeling at l
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1559-1628
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 296 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing entered the collection as a work by Veronese, and was listed as such by Passavant.
Lit.: J.D. Passavant, 'Tour of a German Artist in England', London, 1836, (translation from the original German ed. published in Frankfurt, 1833),II, p. 106, no. 2 (as Veronese); D. von Hadeln, Thieme-Becker, V, p. 397 (as Paolo Veronese); P.H. Osmond, 'Paolo Veronese : his career and work', London, 1927, p. 103 (rejects as Paolo Veronese); H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. A 2096, p. 345 (as Veronese circle)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,3.193
