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Head of a child

Maker

(artist)
1712-1758

Title

Head of a child

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.9 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3471

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

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Provenance

John Bowles (1702?-1779) (owned as part of an album); by descent to his daughter, Margaret Bowles; by descent to her son-in-law, Ponsonby Shaw (1784-1871); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Leonard Duke (1889-1971) by 1940 (album broken up); purchased back from him by Colnaghi (London), 10 November 1943 (with nine other figure sketches by Boitard); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 29 November 1943 (£4, for all ten sketches); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/06/2023-08/10/2023

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Scrap of paper removed from former mount, now in file, graphite, L.G. Duke's hand: "D938w [the "w" superscript] / L.P. Boitard / LGD //".

Collector's mark: none.

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