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Portrait head of Rachel Felix, French actress

Maker

(artist)
1787-1849

Title

Portrait head of Rachel Felix, French actress

Date of Production

(circa) 1841 - 1842

Medium

coloured chalks with stumping on purplish-brown paper, laid down on a cardboard support and in a Witt mount

Dimensions

Height: 55.9 cm
Width: 39.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3067

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, probably around July 1943 (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Inscriptions

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

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

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, artist’s hand?: “Rachel the French Tragedian”. Support, Recto: lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “3067”. Witt Mount, Recto of front cover: lower margin, graphite, Witt’s hand: “D.1952.RW.3067 Rachel Felix. On her first or second visit to London, 1841 or 1842, when she was 21 + in London playing Racine’s Phedre” and “William Etty / 1787-1849 / Portrait of Rachel (Tragedian) / (1820-1858)”. Witt Mount, Verso of front cover: lower right corner, graphite: “#5”.

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