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Study for kneeling Echevin

Maker

(artist)
1654-1733

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1645-1730

Title

Study for kneeling Echevin

Date of Production

1600 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 33 cm
Width: 28.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2790

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

Charles Gasc, Paris (1822?-after 1869), L.543; Emile Wauters, Paris (b. 1846), L.911; Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 and 13 - 14 July 1936, lot 446 (as by de Troy); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962 ...More

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953 ...Less

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 3, p. 14
ill. on p. 15

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 108

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 51 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 10

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 75
as by de Troy ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Mount: Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "FR. DE TROY". Verso: upper left, graphite: "No. 195"; upper centre, graphite: "Bas" [upside down] Label removed from former mount (?), now in file, graphite: "De Troy. / Tableau de St. Etienne du Mont?"

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in red ink: Charles Gasc (L.543); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: possibly Emile Wauters (L.911) [doesn't look quite like L.911, really looks like an 'S' below the 'W' and not an 'e'].

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