Bust length profile view to left of a woman in a hat (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1707-1792
(artist)
1707-1792
(artist)
Title
Bust length profile view to left of a woman in a hat (recto)
Date of Production
1723 - 1792
Medium
black and red chalk on laid paper; red chalk on the verso seems to correspond to recto drawing - was this executed using a transfer process of some kind?
Dimensions
Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1975
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
fichus
Provenance
Barrys; purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 21 September 1941; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 2 May 1942, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27
p. 27
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: upper half of a Strasburg lily.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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