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The Three Kings before Herod

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1548-1628

Title

The Three Kings before Herod

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, hinged at the left to a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 32.3 cm
Width: 23.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3469

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

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (1770-1862), L.1391; by descent to his daughter, Mrs Sophie Hasse, Göttingen; by descent to Karl Ewald Hasse (1810-1902); by descent to Professor E. Ehlers; his wife's sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig) 9-10 May 1930, lot 539; purchased there by Heise, Harison & Co. on behalf of Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 18 January 1944 (£20); Witt Bequest 1952 See Long Description for more information.

Literature

Turner, Jane Shoaf and Christopher White, Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2014
vol. II, p. 499 under no. 599

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133

C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), Handzeichnung des XVI. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts, 9-10 May 1930
no. 539
pl. XLVIII

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: “12”; lower centre, black ink: “Candidi_15”; lower left, graphite, including Colnaghi number: “P. CandiD. / 321 / A.5954”. Mount (historic), Recto: right centre edge, graphite: "14 B"; lower right (under the drawing), graphite: “Peter de Witte, genant Canditto, geb. Brügge / 1548. mit Vasari matte er in Ohln als grever / in gräbzlt. Paltast [?], in wie in Brezern w. in / Baeiern, Sadler, Kritian, David n. A. haben / nach ihm gestocken / P. Candidi / 321.”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Heinrich Wilhelm Campe (L.1391). Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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