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Hunting of the Calydonian boar

Maker

(artist)
1730-1777

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1656-1684

Title

Hunting of the Calydonian boar

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 26.8 cm
Width: 42.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.209

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

Vernet and de la Rue sale? (as per mount inscription, sale unidentified as of yet); unidentified collector's mark, L.172; William Sharp, Manchester (possibly 1795-1781), L.2650; F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (18 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre, just visible in raking light: a large circle with a border, but unable to see more due to mount.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper left corner, brown ink: No,,18,,; upper right, graphite: III . F; lower left corner, graphite: 209; lower centre, graphite, circled: 12; lower right, brown ink crossed through in graphite: La Fage; lower right, graphite: Louis Félix de la Rue. / La Rue Sale. Mount (historic), Verso: lower centre edge, graphite: 624 H O; lower right edge, graphite, abraded in corner: Vernet + De la Rue Sale [...].

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, blindstamped: unidentified collector's mark (L.172). Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, brown ink: William Sharp (L.2650).

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