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Repose of Diana

Maker

(artist)
1656-1684

Title

Repose of Diana

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, cut into a lunette, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 39.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1490

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

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Provenance

Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, Paris (1730-1805); his sale, P. Yver (Amsterdam), 14 September and following days, 1761, part of lot 998; possibly purchased there by Johan van der Marck Aegidiuszoon, Leyden (1707-1772), L.3001; Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to see one in the drawing, due to the support. Support (historic): Verso, centre: Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: “R: La: Fage. f:”; lower centre edge, graphite: “x”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, last three lines of sums erased and difficult to read: “ub”; upper centre, graphite, possibly Aegidiuszoon’s hand: “Een Waayer, verbeeldende / Een Rúst van Diana, met veeler Beelden, / Kúpido’s en Wild, door / Raimond La Fage. / N. 998 úit Húqúier’s Verk. te Amst. In Sept 1761. / 998[?] / 85[?] / cn[?] //”; lower centre, grey ink: “S”; lower right edge, graphite: “3”.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite, transcribed above: possibly Johan van der Marck Aegidiuszoon (L.3001); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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