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Sleeping child

Maker

(artist)
1625-1713

Title

Sleeping child

Date of Production

(circa) 1689

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper, laid down on an historic mount; transmitted light reveals some drawing on the verso

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 26.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3356

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

Major Evelyn Charles Shirley, Ettington Park, Warwickshire (1889-1956); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 February 1937; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 10 November 1943, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, dark brown ink: “di Carlo Maratti" (same hand and mount with D.1952.RW.3526, no handwriting match found on Lugt).

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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