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Child's head (recto)

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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".

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