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Studies of men running

Maker

(artist)
1599-1661

Title

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 30.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1232

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

fronts

Provenance

Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Paris then London (1743-1795), L.474 (upper and lower right) and L.3510 (verso); inherited by his son, Charles Étienne Bourgevin Vialart, comte de Carrière (1772-1817); his sale, H. Phillips (London), 10-14 June 1797, 1st day, lot 39 [as per verso inscription]; purchased there by Legoux [see transcript of sale in Brooks and Lee supplement 2021]; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; his sale, H. Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798, lot 692, L.3016a; Savile Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.75); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Acquisition of Genius, Plymouth & Devon & England, 21/11/2009-21/02/2010

Literature

Brooks, Julian and Case Lee, 'Transcriptions of Auctioneer Henry Phillips’s Annotated Catalogues of the 1797 and 1799 Sales of the Drawings of the Comte de Carrière. Supplement to the article by Julian Brooks and Casey Lee...', 2021
p. 3n4
Fig. 3

Sir Joshua Reynolds: the acquisition of genius, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2009
no. 71
Illus. p. 145

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: recto, centre: three conjoined circles (difficult to see what they contain b/c of the mount – similar to any of Briquet 3245-3257).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Andrea Sacchi”. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, brown ink, reference to the Lot and Day in Saint-Morys's 1797 sale (L.3510): “L 39 1 D".

Collector's mark: Recto: stamped twice, right upper edge and lower right corner, black ink: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.474); lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364). Mount (historic), Verso: left centre edge, pen and red ink: lot number of Sir Joshua Reynolds sale (L.3016a), Lot 692; centre, brown ink: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.3510); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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