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Soldiers making merry in a market tent in camp in Flanders

Maker

(artist)
1679-1772

Title

Soldiers making merry in a market tent in camp in Flanders

Date of Production

1707

Medium

graphite on laid paper, with a vertical fold down the centre and pinholes in the right upper and lower corners; the dancing man and woman partially traced in black chalk on the verso

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 41.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2709

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






celebrating







Provenance

Richard Redgrave; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 June 1932, lot 121; Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£7.45); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Music Party, Handel House & London & England, 07/09/2011-27/11/2011

The Music Party, Boughton House & Northampton & England, 11/06/2011-01/09/2011

Oudenaarde 1708 - A City, a King and a Commander, Municipal Museum & Oudenaarde & Belgium, 10/05/2008-26/10/2008 ...More

Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Tate Gallery, London, 01/07/1967-30/07/1967

Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Aldeburgh Festival, 03/06/1967-25/06/1967

Marcellus Laroon, Blairman Gallery, London, 1951

Marlborough and the Reign of Queen Anne, Chesterfield House, London, 1934 ...Less

Literature

Raines, Robert, Marcellus Laroon, London and New York, 1967
no. 37
fig. 16

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Sitwell, Sacheverell, Conversation pieces : a survey of English domestic portraits and their painters, London 1936
p. 42

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, right centre: coat of arms - a crowned oval flanked by griffins containing a cross, above a circle containing letters "LS [?]" above a circle containing "2 [?]". Heawood type 727-776 but no exact match).

Inscription: Recto: possibly at centre of drawing along vertical fold, graphite: “Im Hmall [?]”; lower centre edge, graphite: “in Flanders.” and “a market Tent in Camps.”; lower right edge, pen and brown ink (seemingly inked over an earlier inscription of the same text), signed and dated by the artist: “Mar Laroon F1707”. Verso: upper right edge, graphite, artist’s hand: “Done in Flanders, in the year 1707. / the year I went into the Army. Mar: Laroon [last two words scratched out in graphite and now illegible].”.

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

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