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Penitent Magdalene before a vision of the crucified Christ

Maker

(artist)
1632-1698

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, lower left corner made up, now laid down on Japanese tissue, and with three vertical lines in brown ink along left side of composition

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.116

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 381 (with D.1952.RW.117); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952) (16 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 68
Illus. p. 205

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: large crowned shield, divided, a small tower in the lower portion, all above monogram “WR” (resembles in type Heawood 516 - Leiden c. 1620 - but is larger with a different element in the upper portion of the shield, and Heawood lacks the monogram ).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (removed, now missing, recorded in the file): Recto, lower centre, pen and ink: “Juan niño”.

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