Meleager and Atalanta
Maker
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1656-1684
(artist)
1656-1684
Title
Meleager and Atalanta
Date of Production
1600 - 1699
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, cut into a fan shape, with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 28.7 cm
Width: 28.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.338
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), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Les dessins de Raymond Lafage, Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, 1962
Appendice IV, no. 610 (as rejected)
Appendice IV, no. 610 (as rejected)
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge: fragment of Pro Patria; Countermark: Recto, left centre edge: “GB” (not found in Churchill or Heawood).
Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left centre, graphite: "La Fage"; lower left, graphite: “La Fage / [...illegible...] / French School”; upper right, graphite: “10”; lower left, typed: [fragment of typed text pasted onto mount, illegible]
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left centre, graphite: "La Fage"; lower left, graphite: “La Fage / [...illegible...] / French School”; upper right, graphite: “10”; lower left, typed: [fragment of typed text pasted onto mount, illegible]
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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