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Beggar on crutches before a horseman

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1683-1733

Title

Beggar on crutches before a horseman

Date of Production

1700 - 1733

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and grey wash on heavily foxed laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.284

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

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Brossel, C., ‘Charles van Falens (1683-1733). Peintre du Régent et de Louis XV Académicien’ in 'Revue Belge d’Archéologie et d’histoire de l’art', 1965 - pp. 211-26; XXXV, 3-4
p. 225
with erroneous inv. no. 289

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 126

Inscriptions

Watermark: cut off by upper centre edge, fragments of letters visible - the second one likely a C

Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, graphite: 70 and below that Witt number 284; lower left edge, graphite: Van falens.

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

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