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Man reading poetry to an audience

Maker

(artist)
1778-1854

Title

Man reading poetry to an audience

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite and brown wash on wove paper, laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 32.4 cm
Width: 45 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.322

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

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Deux artistes genevois en Angleterre: Alfred-Édouard Chalon (1781-1860) et Jean-Jacques dit John Chalon (1778-1854), Musée Rath, Geneva, 23/04/1971-28/05/1971

Caricatures et Moeurs Anglaises, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris and Bordeaux, 1938

English Caricature, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1931-32

Literature

Deux artistes genevois en Angleterre: Alfred-Édouard Chalon (1781-1860) et Jean-Jacques dit John Chalon (1778-1854), Musée Rath, Geneva, 1971
no. 83

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Label: stamp 'Douanes Exposition Paris' upper left; 'Chalon 322' upper right/'200'; '77' in blue pencil/'Sir Robert' lower right

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

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, brown wash: “J.J. Chalon”; lower centre, brown wash: “A Poet reciting his own composition”; lower right, graphite, Witt number written above other graphite inscriptions now erased: “322”.

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