Apollo and Hyacinth
Maker
Jan Claudius de Cock (artist)
1668-1736
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
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
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).
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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