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Portrait of a bearded man

Maker

(artist)
1728-1779

Title

Portrait of a bearded man

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk on laid paper prepared with grey-green wash, the lower right corner made up, laid down on a support, itself hinged at the left edge to a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 16.3 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.287

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

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre: I A (not found in Heawood).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: upper left corner, graphite, underlined: 945-1; lower centre edge, brown ink: Re. Mengs. Support (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: B-18.

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