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Peasant seated - half back view turned to right

Maker

(artist)
1618-1652

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1632-1681

Title

Peasant seated - half back view turned to right

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping and some added wash, on blue laid paper, cut into an octagon, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 26.4 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2286

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-Joseph-Marie-Anatole Marquet de Vasselot, Paris (1840-1904), L.2499; Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; anonymous sale ('Property of a Collector'), Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1927, lot 18 (as by van der Cooghen, with D.1952.RW.2285); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

N.B. this was formerly listed as belonging to Col. F.G. Kenyon Slaney. The confusion arose due to Witt's tendency to write down the first name listed in any sale catalogue on his index card where he recorded his purchase; however this lot was not among those belonging to Kenyon Slaney.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to backing sheet.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left corner, graphite: "138"; upper left edge, graphite: "9+"; centre, graphite, crossed through and erased: "C. B [?]"; lower centre, graphite, erased and hard to read: "Cooghen"; lower right, graphite, second number circled, lot in Dolgoroukoff sale: "Lot 18 / 210 //"; lower centre, graphite: "cannot find red mark / on or side. //"; lower left, brown ink, unclear: "SW [?]"; lower left, graphite, circled: "70".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in red ink: Jean-Joseph-Marie-Anatole Marquet de Vasselot (L.2499). Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, stamped in black ink: Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (L.2602d); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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