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Tobias and the Angel - Tobias hauling a fish

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

black chalk, pen and grey ink, brush and black ink, grey wash, white bodycolour, on grey-brown laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 35.8 cm
Width: 29.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2889

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

Samuel van Huls (1655-1734); his estate sale, The Hague, 14 May 1736, lot 1054 (as 'Histoire de Tobie en 6 pieces'); Mrs Bromley Taylor; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 12 March 1934; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 September 1935 (£20, along with D.1952.RW.213); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Michiel Plomp, Jane Ten Brink Goldsmith, Paul Huys Janssen, Michiel Kersten, John Michael Montias, and Adrienne Quarles von Ufford, Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1994
p. 314 under no. 20

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

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

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