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Standing male figure

Maker

(artist)
1694-1739

Title

Standing male figure

Date of Production

1737

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown) on laid paper; all four corners cut

Dimensions

Height: 30.5 cm
Width: 18.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.352

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, by January 1926; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 41

Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
p. 3
Illus. 4, no. II

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Pro Patria (closest match is Heawood 3700 - Essex 1747).

Inscription: 352

Inscription: Jno [the 'o' superscript] V 1737

Inscription: h

Inscription: A. H. 9

Inscription: E3

Inscription: Van de Banck

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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