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Studies of four women

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1627-1703

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1620-1683

Title

Studies of four women

Date of Production

1640 - 1703

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey-green wash, white bodycolour, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, the lower edge made up

Dimensions

Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 29.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2020

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

Jacques Arnal; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 February 1925, lot 11 (as by Berchem); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Trésor de l’art flamand du moyen âge au XVIIIme Siècle [Afdeeling van de Oud-Vlaamische Kunst], Antwerp, 1930

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Rubinstein, Gregory, 'The Drawings of Jan Siberechts', Master Drawings, 50, 3, Autumn 2012, pp. 365-96
p. 394 note 1
Rejected as by Siberechts.

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129
as Siberechts

Drawings of the old masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1943
cat. no. no cat. no.
p. 17
as Siberechts ...More

Mémorial de l’exposition d’art flamand ancien à Anvers, Antwerp, 1930 Paris 1932
cat. no. 461
as Siberechts

Fokker, Timon Henricus, Jan Siberechts peintre de la paysanne flamande, Brussels and Paris, 1931
p. 113
rejected as Siberechts

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 653 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: foolscap with seven points above a triangle above three circles in a pyramid (Peter Bower had no further information about this mark; looks closest in type to Heawood 2069 - London, 1698).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: "n. Berghem F". Verso: centre, brown ink: "Nic Berghem 1640."; lower right, graphite, underlined: "N Berghem". Mount (removed but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower centre, graphite, circled: "2317"; lower right, black ink crossed through in graphite: "N. Berghem".

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

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