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Two putti on clouds

Maker

(artist)
1618-1682

Title

Two putti on clouds

Date of Production

1675 - 1679

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 7.7 cm
Width: 10.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.153

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 393; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (15 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 11/02/1980-29/03/1980

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)

Literature

Brown, Jonathan, Murillo: virtuoso draftsman, New Haven and London 2012
no. 85
Illus. p. 211

Mulcahy, Rosemary, 'Review: Spanish drawings in the Courtauld Gallery. Complete catalogue. By Zahira Véliz' in 'The Burlington Magazine', September 2011 - pp. 646-47; CLIV
p. 646

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 40
Illus. p. 145 ...More

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1980
cat. no. 61

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 35

Murillo and his drawings, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976-1977
cat. no. 89
no. 89
Illus. p. 177

Spanish Baroque Drawings in North America Collections, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1974
p. 31 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “Murillo”.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount and now mounted separately with the drawing: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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