Domenico Maria Canuti
Lot and His Daughters

CultureItalian
Titles
  • Lot and His Daughters
Date17th century
MediumRed chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet (approximately): 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19 × 28 cm)
Credit LineGift of William Elliott Doyle
Object number2021.708
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe Princely Collection of Liechtenstein1; [London, W.R. Jeudwine, Old Master Drawings , 18 Nov. 1960, lot 16]; Claire Judah (1922-2017) 2 and thence by descent; [Edinburgh, Lyon and Turnbull, Five Centuries: Old Master to 19th-Century Art, 23 May 2018, lot 17]; William Elliott Doyle Collection, Houston, 2018-2022; given to the MFAH, 2022

1 According to the British Museum, the name “Liechtenstein” is a generic term “used for any works that come from the family collection of the Austrian Princes Liechtenstein,” which was formed in the late 18th/early 19th century. “The collection,” the British Museum states, “was dispersed after WWII,” with most of it being sold in tranches to the London art dealership P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd. It’s possible that Lot and His Daughters passed through Colnaghi before being sold by W.R. Jeudwine.
2 Claire Judah was born in Calcutta to a Baghdadi Jewish family. She was educated in England, and the proudest time of her life was when she worked as a codebreaker during the war at the famous Hut 8 at Bletchley Park. After the war she began collecting prints, paintings, and antiques. Added to those she acquired herself were a number she inherited from her mother and uncle.

Exhibition HistoryNone known for this drawing.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left corner: Ital/ca. 1700
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner: 17

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Catalogue raisonnéNone

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