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A True Artist

Maker

(artist)
1834-1896

Title

A True Artist

Date of Production

1873

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.1 cm
Width: 36.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2692

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

Frederick Hoyer Millar (1900-1989); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), 1934; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Hats off to du Maurier, Hampstead Museum, London, 09/11/1996-28/02/1997

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 34

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink, signed with initials: "DM"; lower left, graphite, dated: "Nov. / 22 / /73."; lower centre, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: "(HMt[...])"; lower right, graphite: "George Louis Palmella du Maurier / French. 1831-1896". Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "x".

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

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