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Apollo and Hyacinth

Maker

Jan Claudius de Cock (artist)
1668-1736

Title

Apollo and Hyacinth

Date of Production

1698

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey-blue wash on laid paper, the tree at right added on a separate fragment of paper and partly filled in with graphite

Dimensions

Height: 37.8 cm
Width: 23.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.110

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

Frederick Richard Meatyard, London (1881-1966); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (18 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Dennis de Kool, Jan Claudius de Cock (1667-1735) en zijn tekeningen van tuinbeelden', Cascade Bulletin voor Tuinhistorie, vol. 23, no. 2 (2014), pp. 13-36
p. 33

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “Joān Claūdÿ de Cock / delineavit Ant: / i698.”; lower centre, brown ink: “Hÿacinthi Cruor in florem sūi nominis”. Verso: upper left edge, graphite: “112/11”; centre, graphite, circled: “162”; lower left edge, blue crayon: “S.P.W.”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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