Cavalry battle
Maker
(artist)
1666-1742
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
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).
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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