Repose of Diana
Maker
(artist)
1656-1684
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
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
Keywords
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).
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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