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Standing monk, and study of a cowl

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1629-1687

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1616-1655

Title

Standing monk, and study of a cowl

Date of Production

1680 - 1689

Medium

black and white chalk on buff laid paper, squared with a blind stylus

Dimensions

Height: 42.7 cm
Width: 25.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1895

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 Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...More

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

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

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Michielin, Marijke, 'Sixteen New Drawings by Louis Licherie from an Unpublished Album in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts', Master Drawings Spring 2016; 54, 1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
Fig. 5 on p. 24
as 'Attributed to'

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

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 22, p. 50
Fig. p. 51

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

Simon Vouet - Eustache Le Sueur, Dessins du Musée de Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, 1984
under no. 46

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 76 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, brown ink: “39/T.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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