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Standing figure of a young man

Maker

(artist)
1645-1667

Title

Standing figure of a young man

Date of Production

(circa) 1660 - 1665

Medium

black chalk with stumping on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 8.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2204

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

Max Ziegert (Frankfurt am Main); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

Literature

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 59
ill. on p. 65

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
pp. 27-28

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 43
no. 43

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, right of centre: scrollwork around an oval frame (see photos and tracing in file, not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, graphite: "6i.".

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

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