Standing draped figure, from the waist down (recto)
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1629-1687
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1616-1655
(artist)
1629-1687
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1616-1655
Title
Standing draped figure, from the waist down (recto)
Date of Production
1680 - 1689
Medium
black and white chalk (recto and verso) on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 19 cm
Width: 19 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1891
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
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
catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938
Literature
Francois Marandet, "Louis Licherie (1642-1687) a la Chartreuse de Bourgfontaine: vingt-deux dessins redecouverts," Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art, 18 (2020): 142-148
fig. 12, p. 145
p. 145
Michielin, Marijke, 'Sixteen New Drawings by Louis Licherie from an Unpublished Album in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts', Master Drawings Spring 2016; 54, 1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 ...More
Mérot, Alain, 'Le dessin francais au XVIIe siècle: vingt ans de recherches' in 'Revue de l'Art', 1994 - 43-50; 105
p. 45
Mérot, Alain, Eustache Le Sueur, 1616-1655, Paris 1987
p. 429
Catalogued as 'Louis Licherie?' under ‘Œuvres rejetées' ...Less
fig. 12, p. 145
p. 145
Michielin, Marijke, 'Sixteen New Drawings by Louis Licherie from an Unpublished Album in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts', Master Drawings Spring 2016; 54, 1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 ...More
Mérot, Alain, 'Le dessin francais au XVIIe siècle: vingt ans de recherches' in 'Revue de l'Art', 1994 - 43-50; 105
p. 45
Mérot, Alain, Eustache Le Sueur, 1616-1655, Paris 1987
p. 429
Catalogued as 'Louis Licherie?' under ‘Œuvres rejetées' ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: “1891”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: “1891”.
Collector's mark: none.
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