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Nude figure of a woman, seen from the side, drapery falling from the head (formerly 'Nude girl seated in meditation')

Maker

(artist)
1591-1666

Title

Nude figure of a woman, seen from the side, drapery falling from the head (formerly 'Nude girl seated in meditation')

Date of Production

(before) 1621

Medium

black chalk, with stumping, and traces of red chalk, on laid paper, laid down on an historic mount, with remnants of a grey ink framing line mostly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 26.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1325

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

by descent to the artist's nephews, Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715) and Cesare Gennari (1637-1688), 1666; by descent to Cesare’s sons, Gianfrancesco Gennari (1671-1727) and Filippo Antonio Gennari (1677-1751), 1719; by descent to Gianfrancesco's son, Carlo Gennari (1716-1790); presumably Francesco Forni, Bologna (18th century) or Abbé Bonducci, Florence (18th century); presumably acquired from either of those by John Bouverie, England (ca. 1722/1723-1750), 1741 or 1745; by descent to his sister, Anne Hervey (d. 1757); by descent to her son, Christopher Hervey (d. 1786); by descent to his aunt, Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798); by descent to Sir Charles Middleton, later 1st Baron Barham (1726-1813); by descent to his son-in-law, Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1759-1838); by descent to his son, Charles Noel, later 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781-1866); by descent to Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926); his sale, Christie's (London), 27 July 1922, part of lot 81 (a box containing 68 drawings by Guercino and others); purchased there by F.R. Meatyard (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£90 for the lot); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970 ...More

Il Guercino - Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 01/09/1968-18/11/1968

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Eton, 1939

Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925

catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1923 (Apr. - Jul.) ...Less

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 33

Il Guercino - Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 1968
cat. no. 218

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 75 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 56

Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925
not repr.

Russell, Archibald G.B., Drawings by Guercino, London, 1923
p. 35
ill. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, upper left corner: fragment of a mark, but unable to see more clearly due to mount. Mount (historic), Verso: Strasburg lily above “GR” (variant of Heawood 1855 – London 1785, 1788).

Inscription: 7

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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