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Saint Jerome and the angels of the Last Judgment

Maker

(artist)
1624-1677

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1584-1669

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1669

Medium

black chalk, black and brown wash, white bodycolour on buff laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 24.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3005

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

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852; his estate sale, Basan, Paris, 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, lot 862; purchased there by Charles-Philippe Campion, Abbé de Tersan, Paris (1736-1819), for 12 livres; probably his sale, Paris, 8-30 November 1819, lot 674 ('cent six dessins [nordiques] environ qui seront divisés'); François Sallé, Paris; his sale, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Paris, 10-12 March 1823, lot 82 (as by Crayer, Saint-Jérôme dans le désert, à la pierre d'Italie, rehaussé de blanc), and/or his sale, Paris, 19 February 1827 (as by Crayer, Saint Roch distribuant des aumônes, et un saint Jérôme dans le désert, Deux dessins rehaussés de blanc ; le dernier a fait partie du cabinet Mariette); Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), L.549; by descent to his nephew, George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), L.2600; Charles Fairfax Murray, London (1849-1919) [not evident in the catalogue of his estate sale at Christie's, 30 January 1920, though not all drawings were listed in detail]; Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 May 1938, lot 79 (listed as 'Property of a Gentleman'); purchased there by Colnaghi, London, on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Rosenberg, Pierre et Choueiry, Marie-Liesse, Les dessins de la collection Mariette. Ecoles flamande, hollandaise et allemande, 2 vols., Paris 2022
vol. I, no. N 97 on p. 103
vol. I, ill. on p. 103

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 53

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing a horn, above a “4” and monogram letters “WR” (close to Churchill 317, though no apparent countermark, dated 1770).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852); lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Earl of Warwick (L.2600). Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Charles Greville (L.549); lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, dark brown ink: “18”.

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