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Two reapers

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Two reapers

Date of Production

1625 - 1690

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.4 cm
Width: 18 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2287

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

Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; his sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 27 March 1925, lot 371; acquired by the auction house for £10; anonymous sale ('Property of a Collector'), Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1927, lot 17; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

N.B. formerly this was listed as belonging to Col. F.G. Kenyon Slaney. This confusion arose due to Witt always noting down the first name in any sale catalogue on his index card, where he recorded his purchases; however this lot was not part of Kenyon Slaney's possessions in the sale on this day.

Exhibition History

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, 1972 (Apr.-May)

Literature

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, April - May 1972
cat. no. 35
no. 35

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: left of centre, stamped in black ink: Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (L.2602d); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite: "Special".

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