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The Mass of Saint Gregory

Maker

(artist)
1596-1675

Title

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on brown-prepared paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 29.9 cm
Width: 21 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1571

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

Charles Rogers, London (1711-1784), L.624; John Rushout, Earl of Northwick (1770-1859); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 1-4 November 1920, lot 144 (as 'The Miracle of the Mass'); Achille Chariatte (early 20th century); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 30 April - 1 May 1923, lot 54; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£2); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Trésor de l’art flamand du moyen âge au XVIIIme Siècle [Afdeeling van de Oud-Vlaamische Kunst], Antwerp, 1930

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Steadman, David W., Abraham van Diepenbeeck: seventeenth-century Flemish painter, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1992
p. 63

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125

Mémorial de l’exposition d’art flamand ancien à Anvers, Antwerp, 1930 Paris 1932
cat. no. 390 ...More

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 648
p. 184, no. 648

Sotheyb's/ Catalogue of Old Master Drawings and Modern Etchings from the Collection of the Late Monsieur A. Chariatte (1923)
no. 54 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, in place of missing corner, pen and brown ink: Charles Rogers (L.624); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite, modern: “le [?] / Diepenbeck RW 1571 //”.

Label: Right edge: 53, in red pencil; AC, collectors stamp (for A.Chariatte, Lugt 88a). Artist's name, accession number, location.

Label: Upper right: Abraham van Diepenbeck (letterpress)/1596-1675/Flemish; Exhibited. Flemish Exhibition RA 1927. No 648/Antwerp. 1930. No 390; Colls. C. Rogers/Northwick/Chariatte; 1571

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