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Draped female figure with an urn, and a sleeping Amor

Maker

(artist)
1754-1808

Title

Draped female figure with an urn, and a sleeping Amor

Medium

black chalk with some stumping on rough buff paper, laid down on right half of a mount that has been cut down from a larger mount as attested to by the washline borders (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 34.1 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1229

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

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, December 1935; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: centre: a Strasburg lily just visible, either in the drawing or the recto sheet of the mount, but unable to further discern. Mount (historic): Verso, centre: “J WHATMAN”.

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

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite, partly effaced: "C2" and below that in graphite: "35".

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