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Standing figure of a young boy

Maker

(artist)
1803-1902

Title

Standing figure of a young boy

Date of Production

1823 - 1902

Medium

graphite on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 21.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2915

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 6 June 1938, lot 3; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 August 1938 (£2); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 10

Lavaudon, Therese, 'L'Enfant dans la vie Anglaise' in Formes et Couleurs, Autumn 1947
ill., unpag.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A.10110".

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

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