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Study of an antique male head

Maker

Spain (Seville?) 17th or 18th century (artist)
1600-1799

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1575-1634

Title

Study of an antique male head

Date of Production

1675 - 1799

Medium

black chalk with stumping (a counterproof?) on buff laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 18.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.180

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, 1921, probably cat. 38, though does not match any lot as described and Witt did not specify which Parsons sale, unlike his other Spanish purchases from that sale; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (9 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 101
Illus. p. 275

Angulo Iñiguez, Diego and Alfonso E. Perez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, New York 1975-1988; 4 vols.
vol. II, p. 73, no. 438

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount and now mounted separately with the drawing: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, cut off: [...]as fecit.

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