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Rearing horse

Maker

After
(artist)
1696-1770

Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1804

Title

Rearing horse

Date of Production

1750 - 1751

Medium

black, red and white chalk on blue laid paper, the upper corners cut away

Dimensions

Height: 23 cm
Width: 18.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2502

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

Notes

After a detail of the ceiling fresco 'Apollo in his Sun Chariot driving Beatrice I (1145-84) to Frederick I Barbarossa (1122-90)' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the Imperial Room of the Residenzschloss, Würzburg (Germany), which Tiepolo painted in Spring 1751.

Provenance

Bihn; H. Clinton Baker, Esq.; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 31 May 1932, lot 128; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1937-38

Literature

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.162 (wrongly given accession number 2505)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre: oval containing hearts and letters “IPA / FW //” (no match in Heawood).

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite, upside down, unclear: “16” [?]; lower left, graphite, circled: “90” [or “go”]; lower left, graphite: “2”.

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

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