Child's head (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1607-1678
1607-1678
Title
Child's head (recto)
Date of Production
1620 - 1678
Medium
black, red and white chalk on green-prepared laid paper, laid down (recto), black chalk and pen and brown ink on laid paper (verso - backing sheet)
Dimensions
Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 17 cm
Width: 17 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3197
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
Notes
The verso of the drawing is drawn on the backing sheet, not the original sheet, so it is probably by a different hand.
Provenance
Johan Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen (1767-1839); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£10); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129
p. 129
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left edge, brown ink: "11472"; upper left edge, graphite, indecipherable; upper right edge, graphite: "Spranger / JC Spengler Coll. / Lugt 1434 [this crossed out in brown ink] / Gone to Courtauld Coll"; lower centre, brown ink: "no 23 June 1 79"; lower left corner, graphite, unclear first number: "13". Strip of paper (removed from mount?), now in file, Recto: brown ink: "Spranger [this crossed out in graphite] - aut. J.C.S.". Strip of paper (removed from mount?), now in file, Verso: centre, graphite: "8".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left edge, brown ink: "11472"; upper left edge, graphite, indecipherable; upper right edge, graphite: "Spranger / JC Spengler Coll. / Lugt 1434 [this crossed out in brown ink] / Gone to Courtauld Coll"; lower centre, brown ink: "no 23 June 1 79"; lower left corner, graphite, unclear first number: "13". Strip of paper (removed from mount?), now in file, Recto: brown ink: "Spranger [this crossed out in graphite] - aut. J.C.S.". Strip of paper (removed from mount?), now in file, Verso: centre, graphite: "8".
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