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Portrait of Claude de Salmasius

Maker

(artist)
1680-1720

After
(artist)
born 1682

Title

Portrait of Claude de Salmasius

Date of Production

(after) 1695

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with an added paper border with red ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3373

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

Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Paper border (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "7122"; diagonally across centre, graphite, hard to read: "Yankee [illegible]". Paper border (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Bullfinch del."; lower centre, graphite: "C. Salmatius"; lower right corner, graphite: "106". Paper border (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "3 115"; lower left, graphite: "Salmatius".

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