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Angels carrying the Cross (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1636-1716

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1691

Medium

black, red and white chalk with brown ink framing lines (recto), black and red chalk (verso), on brown laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 35.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3395

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

Notes

This double-sided study of angels carrying the cross and other instruments of the Passion is for an unexecuted pendentive, produced by La Fosse while developing his scheme for the decoration of the cupola of the church of Les Invalides, Paris. The two angels on the recto were incorporated, however, into the frescoed cupola where they support the column of the Flagellation (we are grateful to Jennifer Tonkovich for this information).

Provenance

possibly Pierre Crozat, Paris (1661-1740); possibly his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741, lot 1051 (as 'Quatorze dessins, Études pour les peintures du dôme de l'église des Invalides'); Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852; his estate sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, lot 1250 (as 'Huit sujets et esquisses diverses, à la sanguine et pierre noire...'); purchased there by either the Baron Delunes (?) or by Basan (Paris); F. Stanton (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 15 May 1935; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 21 December 1943 (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

French paintings and drawings of the 17th century, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1971

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962 ...More

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962 ...Less

Literature

Gustin-Gomez, Clémentine, Charles de la Fosse, 1636-1716, Dijon 2006
no. D.33
ill. on p.189 (recto), p. 190 (verso)

Hedley, Jo, 'Toward a new century: Charles de la Fosse as a draftsman" in 'Master Drawings", Autumn 2001 - pp. 223-59; 39, 3
p. 245
fig. 28 on p. 244 (recto)

Chereau, Angélique, Charles de La Fosse et le grand décor (1636-1716), MA thesis, Sorbonne, Paris 1992
no. 19-E
ill. ...More

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 31, p. 72
ill. on p. 73

French paintings and drawings of the 17th century, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1971
cat. no. 29 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to two layers of paper.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "45".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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