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Elijah and the ravens

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Elijah and the ravens

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 40.2 cm
Width: 30.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2971

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

Exhibition History

Leonaerdt Bramer 1592-1679, Delft & Netherlands, 10/09/1994-13/11/1994

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Literature

Plomp, Michiel C., 'Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674) als ontwerper van decoratie op Delfts aardewerk' in 'Oud Holland Jaargang', 1999 - pp. 197-216; 113, 4
p. 199
fig. 3 on p. 200

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
no. 3 and p. 312 under no. 1
fig. 3 on p. 216

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 13
no. 13 ...More

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 43 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "43". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, circled, Gutekunst number: "43"; lower centre, graphite: "Elia wird von Raben gespeist I Kon. 17"; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: "2971".

Collector's mark: none.

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