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Christ and the lawyer

Maker

(artist)
1590-1648

Title

Christ and the lawyer

Date of Production

1645

Medium

red chalk on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 32.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2072

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

Koch (Frankfurt), 1930, lot 55; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 24

Bauch, Kurt, 'Beiträge zum Werk der Vorläufer Rembrandts: IV. Handzeichnungen von Jakob Pynas' in 'Oud Holland', 1937 - pp. 241-52; 54, 1
cat. no. p. 246, n. 1

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: small letters “P_R” (larger variant of Heawood 3069 – London, n.d.).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, red chalk, signed and dated by the artist, the date now faded and thus dependant on older notes in file: “Jai Pynas f / [?] 1645 //”. Verso: upper centre, graphite, circled: “1405”; lower left, graphite: “Jac: Pynas 16. / No1405 / LUH //”.

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

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