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Young Virgin Mary sewing

Maker

(artist)
1634-1679

Formerly attributed to

1598-1664

Title

Young Virgin Mary sewing

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 18.6 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1844

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

possibly Visconde de Castelruiz; his sale, Christie's (London), 27 - 30 April 1846, lot 97; Dr Barry Delany, Kilkenny (1815-1888), L.350 [not listed in his 1872 sale catalogue but could have been in a portfolio]; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 - 18 April 1923, lot 75 (as by Zurbarán, study for the painting in the Hermitage); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; 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. 74
p. 215

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 15

Mayer, August L., 'Los dibujos espanoles de la coleccion Witt en Londres' in 'Arte Espanol', 1926-27 - pp. 2-4; VIII, 1
p. 2
questioned attribution to Zurbarán

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge: a small circle, possibly originally in a stack of three - unable to see what it contains.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). On former mount (now missing, recorded in notes in file), Verso: brown ink: Barry Delany (L.350).

Inscription: Verso: upper left, brown ink: “2 desol.”

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