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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
Pp,5.114
Description
Infantry on the march; seen from behind and walking down hill to left Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
Producer name
Drawn by:
Giacomo Cortese
School/style
Roman
French
Production date
1621-1675
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
99 millimetres
Width:
153 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This belongs to the same series as those in the BM Cortese album (Turner no. 52). Lit.: N. Turner, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Roman Baroque Drawings', London, 1999, I, no. 45 (with previous literature) Turner 1999 See Pp,5.115 for curatorial comment. Literature: Popham, 1935, II, p.215 ( as Jacques Courtois); Holt, 1966, p. 346.
Bibliographic references
Turner 1999 / Roman Baroque Drawings c.1620 to c.1700
(45)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
2000 Mar-Jun, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizione, 'Roma Antica e Moderna..'
Subjects
military
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Richard Payne Knight
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Collegio Romano
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Pierre Crozat
(Sale, Grands Augustins, Paris, expert P.-J. Mariette, 10 April to 13 May 1741, one of a group of drawings sold as lots 289-92 (i.e. Mariette, 1741, p.29))
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Saint-Morys
(by descent to his son Comte Carrière)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Carrière
(L.474)
Acquisition date
1824
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Pp,5.114
Conservation
Treatment
: 31 Jan 2000