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Adoration of the Magi

Maker

(artist)
1686-1755

Title

Adoration of the Magi

Date of Production

1715 - 1717

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on blue laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 19.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3232

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

probably Gabriel Huquier, Paris (1695-1772); probably one of two drawings of this subject in his sale, P. IJver (Amsterdam), 14 - 26 September 1761, lot 2806 or lot 2809; if the former, purchased by Simon Fokke, Amsterdam (1712-1784) if the latter, purchased by IJver; Max de Beer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755, Grand Palais, Paris; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1982-1983

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959 ...Less

Literature

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 516

Opperman, Hal N., Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York and London 1977
no. D161
fig. 35

J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755, Grand Palais, Paris; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1982-1983
cat. no. 4 ...More

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 37, p. 84
ill. on p. 85

Le baroque des lumières: Chefs-d'œuvre des églises parisiennes au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Petit Palais, 2017, Paris, Musées des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
p. 50
ill. on p. 50
prep for cat no. 2 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, brown ink: “J.B. Oudry.”; lower right, grey ink, underlined: “7”; lower right edge, graphite: “5th Day L882”; lower right corner, graphite: “28”; lower right corner, brown ink: “42”. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: “N55”; lower left, graphite, partially erased: “[…]or / 1380 //”; lower centre, graphite: “19984 4th Cat / […] HN/-/- //”.

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

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