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Bust portrait of a man

Maker

(artist)
1590-1610

Title

Bust portrait of a man

Date of Production

(circa) 1600

Medium

black and red chalk with stumping on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.6 cm
Width: 21.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3116

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

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Provenance

St Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal, Austria; Adolf Fritz Mondschein, Vienna, changed to Frederick Mont after moving to New York in 1930 (1894-1994); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre, upside down: device of Henri III with three crowns and “VLTIMA”, “COELO”, “MANET” and “EDMONDENISE” (matches Briquet 5096, though the chain lines are not the same distances – Verton, 1584; Sens and Paris, 1588).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: “1600 yr”; lower right corner, brown ink, partly abraded: “10 […]”.

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