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Man of Sorrows - Ecce Homo

Maker

Hendrik de Clerck (artist)
1570-1630

Title

Man of Sorrows - Ecce Homo

Date of Production

1585 - 1630

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 13.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1085

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

John MacGowan, Edinburgh (d. 1803), L.1496; his estate sale T. Philipe (London), 26 January 1804, lot 772 (as by ‘Martin de Vos’); Battle (?); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£7); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 11

Laureyssen, W., ‘Hendrik De Clerck, zijn leven en zijn werk’, diss., Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1975
vol. III, p. 656, no. 54

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, very small: “B”; lower right corner (within drawing), brown ink, artist’s monogram: “HDC”. Verso: centre, graphite: "7"; lower right, graphite, Witt number: "1085"; lower right edge, graphite, faded and difficult to see: “74 […]”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped in black ink: John MacGowan (L.1496); lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Label: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left, pen and brown ink: "Auf der Marietstien [?] / Juin Zunfud Naft [...] 26. //"/. Verso: part of an engraving, used as a backing sheet.

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