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Bust length profile view to left of a woman in a hat (recto)

Maker

(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

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

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).

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