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Apollo and Daphne

Maker

(artist)
1590-1648

Title

Apollo and Daphne

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a historic support, though the centre of the support on the verso has been roughly torn away

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 22.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2121

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

unidentified collector, mark similar to L.827; Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; R.W.P. de Vries (Amsterdam); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8 December 1977 - 19 February 1978; Institut néerlandais, Paris, 16 March - 30 April 1978, 1977
p. 120n2

Bauch, Kurt, 'Beiträge zum Werk der Vorläufer Rembrandts: IV. Handzeichnungen von Jakob Pynas' in 'Oud Holland', 1937 - pp. 241-52; 54, 1
pp. 247-49
fig. 9 on p. 249
see attached PDF, also in file

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre: large pot containing letters in single lines “TC” [?], with a single handle, above is a bunch of grapes (not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right edge, brown ink: “jan pinas”. Support (historic), Verso: left centre edge, graphite: “By Jan Pinas - / Born at Haarlem 1597 //”; lower centre, brown ink: “jacob pinas”; lower right edge, graphite, partly erased: “Page[…]ll (?)”; lower right corner, graphite, circled: “159”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (L.2602d). Support (historic), Verso: lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: unidentified collector (looks like L.827, but has a dot between the letters); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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