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Peasant woman, turned three-quarters to the left, holding a glass

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1631-1664

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1638-1698

Title

Peasant woman, turned three-quarters to the left, holding a glass

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

red chalk on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2174

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

Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris (1701-1779), L.1740; possibly his sale, Boileau et Joullain (Paris), 24 May (and following days) 1773, lot 337 (with one other); August Grahl, Dresden (1791-1868), L.1199; his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 27 - 28 April 1885, lot 21; purchased there by Herbage; anonymous sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 28 November 1912, lot 78; purchased there by Curt; Christie's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings for paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 02/10/2016-02/01/2017; Fondation Custodia, Frits Lugt, Paris, 03/02/2017-07/05/2017

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

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

De Jerome Bosch à Rembrandt: dessins hollandais du XVI au XVII siecle, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 01/11/1937-01/01/1938

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1929 ...Less

Literature

Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art Washington; Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2016-2017
cat. no. 103
no. 103 and p. 12
fig.103 on p. 237

Schatborn, Peter, 'The Importance of Drawing from Life - Some Preliminary Notes' in Robinson, William W., 'Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams collection', Amsterdam 1991 - pp. 7-012
p. 10
fig. no. 8 on p. 11

Scott, Mary Ann, Cornelius Bega (1631/32-1664) as painter and draughtsman, Ann Arbor 1984
no. GB23
listed as questionable, possibly G. Berckheyde ...More

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. 13n8

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 39

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1929
cat. no. 688
p. 228

Sotheby's, London, Collection of drawings by the Old Masters, formed by the late Professor August Grahl, of Dresden, 27-28 April 1885
lot 21
autotype no. 21 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, graphite, faded and crossed out: "c g z / gz // [?]".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: August Grahl (L.1199); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Jean-Denis Lempereur (L.1740).

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