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Five studies of a camel's head

Maker

(artist)
1609-1664

Title

Five studies of a camel's head

Medium

oil paint on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.4 cm
Width: 38 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1959

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

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Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974), L.2811b; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre: coat of arms - an oval surrounded by filigree, containing three circles and a chevron; Countermark: Recto, left centre: banner containing "B?C" (no match found in Heawood or Churchill; the countermark appears with a number of Heawood coat-of-arms such as 673 - Paris c. 1669, 696 - Paris 1687, 708 - Paris 1675 and 717 - Paris 1672, but none that are even close to this shield. A similar shield is seen in Heawood 705 - n.p. or date, but says without chevron is Arms of Counts of Bologne).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: “C[..]au-”. Verso: lower centre, graphite: “10 6”.

Collector's mark: The mount formerly used for this drawing was for some reason removed and then reused for D.1970.XX.1: the stamp of Carl Robert Rudolf (L.2811b) is now on that mount but must have referred to this drawing.

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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