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Head of a woman

Maker

(artist)
1625-1713

Title

Head of a woman

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 26.4 cm
Width: 25.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3526

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

Major Evelyn Charles Shirley, Ettington Park, Warwickshire (1889-1956); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 February 1937; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 2 May 1944, for £10; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 44

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none evident in the drawing sheet. Mount (historic), Verso: centre: circle containing fleur-de-lis.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, dark brown ink: “di Carlo Maratti" (same hand and mount with D.1952.RW.3356, no handwriting match found on Lugt). Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, price: “15/-/-".

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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