Saint Gertrude of Nivelle
Maker
(artist)
1596-1675
1596-1675
Title
Saint Gertrude of Nivelle
Date of Production
1610 - 1675
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, white bodycolour, on laid paper, on a historic mount, incised for transfer
Dimensions
Height: 24.8 cm
Width: 12.9 cm
Width: 12.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2306
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
E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (30 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978
Literature
Steadman, David W., Abraham van Diepenbeeck: seventeenth-century Flemish painter, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1992
p. 63
Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 58
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125
p. 63
Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 58
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso (hidden beneath mount, only visible via transmitted light): lower left, very faint but likely “Diepenbeck”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: “v/** The pan. v/**”; lower right, graphite, hard to read: “plain / Si[…]line / only //”; lower centre, graphite: “P.134”; lower centre edge, graphite, abraded by removal of a former mount and now illegible: “D[…]”.
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso (hidden beneath mount, only visible via transmitted light): lower left, very faint but likely “Diepenbeck”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: “v/** The pan. v/**”; lower right, graphite, hard to read: “plain / Si[…]line / only //”; lower centre, graphite: “P.134”; lower centre edge, graphite, abraded by removal of a former mount and now illegible: “D[…]”.
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