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Healing of Tobias' father

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Healing of Tobias' father

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: 39.9 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2978

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. 55 (as 'The healing of Toby'); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 55

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "57". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, original Witt number: "2978"; lower left, graphite, Gutekunst number: "(55)"; lower centre, graphite: "Heilung des Tobias.". Witt mount, Outercover, Recto: lower right corner, graphite, Lady Witt’s hand: "Leonard Bramer / Dutch 1595-1674 / Healing of Tobias's Father //"; right lower edge, graphite, erased: "25".

Collector's mark: none.

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