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Worship of the Golden Calf

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Worship of the Golden Calf

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

black ink, grey wash, white bodycolour on grey-brown laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 39.1 cm
Width: 31.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2964

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

possibly a private collection in Freiburg im Breisgau; Gutekunst & Klipstein (Bern), November 1938, no. 28; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); 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. 312 under no. 1

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "27". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: "2964"; lower centre, graphite: "Das goldene Kalb II Mose 32."; lower left, graphite circled, Gutekunst number: "28". Witt mount, Outer cover, Recto: lower right corner, graphite, Lady Witt’s hand: "Leonard Bramer / Dutch 1595-1674 / Worship of the Golden Calf. //"

Collector's mark: none.

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