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Saint Philip exorcising the demon

Maker

(artist)
1616-1655

Title

Saint Philip exorcising the demon

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite on laid paper, squared in graphite, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 32.2 cm
Width: 23.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1756

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

Prosper Flury-Hérard, Paris (1804-1873), L.1015; Marquis Philippe de Chennevières, Paris and Bellesme (1820-1899), L.2073; possibly his sale, Féral (Paris), 5 - 6 May, 1898 lot 101 (as 'Sujet biblique'); Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Prat, Louis-Antoine and Rosenberg, Pierre, La collection Chennevières: Quatre siècles de dessins français, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2007
cat. no. 53
p. 63, p. 229, cat no. 53
Illus. p. 229

Mérot, Alain, Eustache Le Sueur, 1616-1655, Paris 1987
p. 331, no. D.346
Illus. no. 479, np
as 'Saint Paul et le serpent'

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, on an added strip of blue paper, brown ink: “Lesueur.”; lower centre, graphite, erased: “226 [?]”; lower right, graphite: “Eustachiens Lesueur / 1617-1655. / 159 //”; lower left edge, graphite: ““The French Raffaello.””; lower centre edge, graphite: “P.LL”; lower right edge, graphite: “Collection Chennevières”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Philippe de Chennevières (L.2073); lower right corner, stamped in black ink with the number added in pen and brown ink: Prosper Flury-Hérard (L.1015), with the number “636”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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