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Draped female figure and study of a head (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1575-1642

Title

Draped female figure and study of a head (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping (recto), black and white chalk, left edge has brown ink border, much abraded (offset?) (verso), on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Width: 21.1 cm
Height: 31.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2412

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

Haldane Macfall, London (1860-1928); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 12 June 1929, lot 32; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970 ...More

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

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

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Old master drawings, Leicester, 1952 ...Less

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 29
as by Guido Reni

Drawings from New York Collections: 17th Century Italy, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1967
under no. 20, p. 29

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 89 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 30 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, black chalk: “24.”. Verso: upper left, black chalk: “1y”.

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

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