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View of Nantes

Maker

(artist)
1793-1867

Title

View of Nantes

Date of Production

26 September 1851

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 34.4 cm
Width: 50.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3056

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

Walker’s Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

British painters in France = Les peintres anglais en France, Bristol, 26/05/1953-13/06/1953

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. 47

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. 51

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

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

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, signed and dated with artist's initials in monogram; "CS. Nantes. Septr.26th. 1851.". Mount (removed, now missing but recorded in file): “Exhtd. Brit. Council, Canada, 1949/50, and American Fed. of Arts, Washington & 9 other cities, 1951.”.

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