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Hunting scene

Maker

(artist)
1555-1630

Title

Hunting scene

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash on brown laid paper, laid down on a historic mount with brown wash and ink borders

Dimensions

Height: 39.3 cm
Width: 55.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2768

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

John Barnard, London (1709-1784); Charles Rogers, London (1711-1784), L.624; his estate sale, T. Philipe (London), 15 - 24 April 1799, lot 634; Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 27 June 1939, lot 1307; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to the mount.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, written in brown: Charles Rogers (L.624). Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, erased and now mostly illegible: "[...] Barnard Rodgers [sic] [...] Collections"; lower left edge, graphite, Schwerdt’s number: “III.222”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, faded: “15 g[…]” and below that “Lu”; upper right corner, graphite: “FF”; upper right, brown ink: “393”; lower left corner, graphite: “Tp” and “13 gs / Barnard Collection”; lower centre edge, graphite: “#1”; lower right, brown ink: “Antonio Tempesta / B. at Florence 1555 – D. 1630.”.

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