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Half-length portrait of a youth

Maker

(artist)
1630-1700

Title

Half-length portrait of a youth

Date of Production

1660

Medium

graphite, black wash on parchment

Dimensions

Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 6.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1637

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 (incomplete and illegible stamp on verso); Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 48

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: n/a

Inscription: Recto: upper edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "Johannes Thopas Fecis 1660".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink, but so incompletely unable to identify it other than as a large oval.

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