View of Nantes
Maker
(artist)
1793-1867
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
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
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
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.”.
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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