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Study of two nudes

Maker

(artist)
1656-1684

Title

Study of two nudes

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, with greyish pigmentation in areas of the seated figure

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 32.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1491

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

unidentified collector, L.2693?; Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Les dessins de Raymond Lafage, Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, 1962
Appendice IV, no. 644 (as rejected)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: circle containing three small hills (not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: Recto: lower right of centre edge, brown ink: “Mpier Lafage” [written over “Lafange”] and below that “Monsre Lafage”.

Collector's mark: Recto: upper left corner, stamped in black ink but not fully transferred: possibly unidentified collector’s mark (L.2693)? Witt suggested this mark, though with a question mark (and perhaps taking the suggestion from Spencer, whence he acquired it), and it could match, but is only 20 mm wide while L.2693 is 25 mm according to Lugt.

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