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Study of a left foot

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1538-1608

Title

Date of Production

1575 - 1600

Medium

traces of charcoal, pen and brown ink, some lines incised with a stylus, on laid paper, torn unevenly into an oval and laid down on a support

Dimensions

Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 15.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.125

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 379 (with D.1952.RW.120, 121 and 122, all by Céspedes); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (12 shillings for 4); 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. 9
Illus. p. 71

Angulo Iñiguez, Diego and Alfonso E. Perez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, New York 1975-1988; 4 vols.
vol. I, p. 38, no. 127
Illus. pl. XXXVIII
as doubtful attribution to Cespedes

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 3

Inscriptions

Watermark: possibly at centre but unable to see more clearly due to poor condition of paper and support behind.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: left lower edge, brown ink: “Cespedes”.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount and now mounted separately with the drawing: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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