Man of Sorrows - Ecce Homo
Maker
Hendrik de Clerck (artist)
1570-1630
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
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
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.
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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