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Study of a right foot

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1575-1634

Title

Study of a right foot

Date of Production

1650 - 1699

Medium

black, red and white chalk with stumping on brown laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 25 cm
Width: 18 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.181

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, London (1872-1952) (9 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 89
Illus. p. 250

Angulo Iñiguez, Diego and Alfonso E. Perez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, New York 1975-1988; 4 vols.
vol. II, p. 73, no. 442
Illus. pl. CX
as Anonymous

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 4
as Cespedes?

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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