Portrait of Claude de Salmasius
Maker
(artist)
1680-1720
After
(artist)
born 1682
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
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
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".
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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