Half-length portrait of a youth
Maker
(artist)
1630-1700
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
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
Keywords
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
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.
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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