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Saint Gertrude of Nivelle

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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[…]”.

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