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Archery scene (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, grey wash (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 36.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1468

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 Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon (1887-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 July 1935, lot 1; or the same sale, but an anonymous seller, lot 10; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 February 1936 (£7); Witt Bequest 1952 See long description for a note about the provenance.

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, 1972 (Apr.-May)

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 68

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, April - May 1972
cat. no. 3

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: MHG monogram. According to Peter Bower, a Dutch watermark in use in the 1690s (Voorn 1960, p. 134). Used as a countermark for the Arms of Amsterdam (see Churchill 36 and 63, dated 1705 and 1721 respectively), and as a countermark for a fleur-de-lys (see Heawood 1656, dated c. 1684).

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, black chalk: No 1; upper right, brown ink over graphite, enclosed in a small triangle (a collector’s mark? not in Lugt, and when contacted, the Fondation Custodia was not familiar with this mark): R / P B.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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