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Lion hunt

Maker

Flanders late 16th century
1575-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1528-1598

Title

Lion hunt

Date of Production

1545 - 1598

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on buff laid paper, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 7.7 cm
Width: 10 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2765

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

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Provenance

Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 June 1939, lot 1219; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Inscriptions

Watermark: none visible in the drawing sheet. Secondary support: upper centre edge: lower half of a Strasburg lily / VDL [monogram].

Inscription: Verso: centre, hidden under support, but visible using the VSC: "Stradano". Support (historic), Verso: centre, graphite; “10. / 1219 Sothebys / 27 June / 1939 / £1.5”; lower right corner, graphite: “2”.

Collector's mark: none.

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