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Saint (?) kneeling with arms outstretched

Maker

(artist)
1566-1651

Title

Saint (?) kneeling with arms outstretched

Date of Production

1605 - 1615

Medium

red chalk, white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3470

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

purchased from an anonymous source by Colnaghi (London), 19 October 1938; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 18 January 1944 (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Bolten, Jaap, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651: the drawings, 2007
no. 909 on pp. 302-03
fig. 909 on p. 353

Roethlisberger, Marcel G. and Marten Jan Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Doornspijk 1993
p. 155 under no. 114

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: staff of Basel (no exact match in Heawood, Briquet or Piccard, but Peter Bower confirmed it is Swiss, mid-17th century).

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite: "Bloemart"; right lower edge, black ink, circled: "GMünch / p. 1869. //"; lower left, graphite: "N 3 / gra / 8 //"; lower right corner, graphite, unclear: "E 2L [?]".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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