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Bacchanal

Maker

(artist)
1656-1684

Title

Bacchanal

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 42.6 cm
Width: 58.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1450

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

possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.3016a?; possibly his estate sale, H. Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798, lot 219; John MacGowan, Edinburgh (d. 1803), L.1496; Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Les dessins de Raymond La Fage, Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, 1962

Literature

Les dessins de Raymond La Fage, Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, 1962
cat. no. 86
Illus. repr.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, left centre: a circle, unable to see what it contains due to backing sheet; Backing sheet: Verso, left centre: “M T [?]”.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “32”; lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist: “LaFage”; lower right corner, brown ink, crossed through: “N55”. Verso (backing sheet): right centre edge, red ink, possibly from Reynolds’s sale, L.3016a?: “Lot 219”; lower centre edge, brown ink: “No. 9”.

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): right upper edge, red ink: possibly Joshua Reynolds (L.3016a); centre, stamped in black ink: John MacGowan (L.1496); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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