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Apollo presiding at an Academy of Letters (with Virgil and La Fontaine?)
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1720-1778
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Width: 23 cm
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A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962
French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962 ...More
French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 219
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "Ch Eisen f 1762". Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "grave par"; lower centre, dark brown ink: "Ch. EISEN." and below titles on books "DE / ENIDE" and "CONTES DE / LA / FONTAIN"; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: "1646". Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, graphite: "Apollon presidant l'academie de Sciences / paraph [not in Lugt] //".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, (L.2602d). Mount (historic), Recto, and again on Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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