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White horse

Maker

(artist)
1596-1675

Title

White horse

Date of Production

1610 - 1675

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, brown and grey wash, on light-brown-prepared laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 30.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3143

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

Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Paris then London (1743-1795), L.474 (lower left); inherited by his son, Charles Étienne Bourgevin Vialart, comte de Carrière (1772-1817); his sale, H. Phillips (London), 10-14 June 1797, probably 4th day, lot 49, bought in and then up for sale again by the comte de Carrière at H. Phillips (London), 2 March 1799, lot 43 ("Six...Diepenbeck, Josepin &c."); purchased there by James Mosenau; perhaps sold by him at Squibb (London), 28-29 March 1803, lot 14 ("Six from Diepenbeck, Jordains, &c.") [catalogue on Brill not annotated with buyers' names]; Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin (c. 1840-1914), L.2926 (lower left); Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 29 September 1937; purchased back by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 27 October 1942 (£12); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

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

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 59

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: unable to discern through the mount.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys (L.474); lower left, stamped in black ink: Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (L.2926). Mount (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: “10”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, brown ink, very small: “AIE”; upper centre, graphite, underlined: “A”; lower left, black chalk, faded and illegible in places: “37477 [underlined] / 3567 [circled] / C […] M LD / No 247 [or 297, or 291]”; lower centre, graphite: “(c)”.lower right, graphite: “Plain ground”.

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