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Cavalry battle

Maker

(artist)
1666-1742

Title

Cavalry battle

Date of Production

1696

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour, on brown laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 17 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1826

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

Johann Andreas Boerner, Nuremberg (1785-1862), L.269, 1807; Adolf Glüenstein, Hamburg (b. 1849), L.123; Richeton; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

German Old Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1969-70 (Dec.-Mar.)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “G.P. Rugendas pinx. et delin. Augusta Li .12. d’Aprile .No 1696”. Verso: upper right corner, graphite, circled: “15”; centre, blue crayon: “Rugendas”; right centre, graphite: “200”; lower left, blue crayon: “NC”; lower centre, graphite: “G. Ph. Rugendas / D92 //”; lower left, grey ink, abraded: “Z. Rücks[...]”; lower left edge, graphite, abraded: “Coh[...] 748”; lower right corner, graphite: “187 / M //”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped in blue ink: Adolf Glüenstein (L.123); left lower edge, pen and brown ink: Johann Andreas Boerner (L.269, with the year “1807”); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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