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Standing monk - bottom half

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1629-1687

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1616-1655

Title

Standing monk - bottom half

Date of Production

1680 - 1689

Medium

black and white chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1884

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






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Provenance

sold 1887; John Waldie; bound in an album of 45 drawings, listed under 'Various Owners', Sotheby's (London), 28 November 1922, lot 112; Archibald George Blomefield Russell, London and Swanage (1879-1955); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), (with 12 others, 28 shillings each), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French Art 1600-1800, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 25/10/1938-10/12/1938

Literature

Michielin, Marijke, 'Sixteen New Drawings by Louis Licherie from an Unpublished Album in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts', Master Drawings Spring 2016; 54, 1
p. 24

Whiteley, John, Catalogue of the collection of drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Volume VII. French School, Oxford 2000
p. 147 under no. 442

Mérot, Alain, 'Le dessin francais au XVIIe siècle: vingt ans de recherches' in 'Revue de l'Art', 1994 - 43-50; 105
p. 45 ...More

Mérot, Alain, Eustache Le Sueur, 1616-1655, Paris 1987
p. 429
Catalogued as 'Louis Licherie?' under ‘Œuvres rejetées' ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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