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Pieta (Design for an Altar)

Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido)  (Netherlandish, Bruges ca. 1548–1628 Munich)

Date:
ca. 1590–1600
Medium:
Pen and black ink, gray wash
Dimensions:
sheet: 10 x 5 7/16 in. (25.4 x 13.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003
Accession Number:
2003.509
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: At lower center, inscribed "A", "B", and "A" in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist; at lower right, probably inscribed (largely cropped) "A", and below "B" in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist; below, inscribed "piedi" and "6" in pen and gray ink, probably by the artist; to the right, inscribed "R2:" (?) in pen and brown ink (19th century handwriting). Verso: at upper right, inscribed " p ora nulji / s[...]" (?) in pen and brown ink (17th century handwritting)

    Marking: Watermark: shield with salt barrel

  • Provenance

    Ingeborg Tremmel (died 2002); Ketterer Kunst, Munich, May 5-6, 2003, lot 200; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Ketterer Kunst, Munich The Tremmel Collection: Old & New Masters Drawings from the 16th up to the 19th century [Sale cat. May 5-6, 2003]. Munich, May 5-6, 2003, cat. no. 200, ill.

    Brigitte Volk-Knüttel Peter Candid (um 1548-1628) Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Druckgraphik. Berlin, 2010, cat. no. Z31, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 52; p. 119, under cat. 54; introduction, pp. xi-xiv (entry written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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