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Half-length seated figure of a leather worker

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1660-1714

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1633-1699

Title

Half-length seated figure of a leather worker

Date of Production

1660 - 1714

Medium

red chalk with stumping on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1983

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

Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Famous British Women Artists, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1953

British-born artists of the seventeenth century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1938

Literature

Croft-Murray, Edward and Paul Hulton, Catalogue of British Drawings, British Museum, London 1960; 1

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 5

Famous British Women Artists, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1953
cat. no. 11

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Strasburg lily above “4” above monogram “WR”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper left, brown ink: "5" and "50". Verso: ink offset and chalk traces from another drawing: "49" [and other traces]; lower left, graphite: "Mary Beale"; lower left, graphite, Witt number: "1983".

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