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Winged figure (Cupid?) (recto)

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1488-1560

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1553-1615

Title

Winged figure (Cupid?) (recto)

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1772

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

Dr Walter Gernsheim, London (1910-2006); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), December 1937; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Literature

Sir Joshua Reynolds: the acquisition of genius, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2009
p. 131, under no. 57
see attached PDF

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, upside down: "10.". Verso: upper left corner, graphite, circled: “No 7”; this was written over the start of a line of text in graphite that is now so faded it is illegible.

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