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Studies of armour

Maker

(artist)
1688-1737

Title

Studies of armour

Date of Production

1729 - 1730

Medium

black and white chalk on buff laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 40.8 cm
Width: 24.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3554

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

Edgar Backius (? Or Backils, or Backins?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 11? August 1941; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 16 May 1944 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962 ...More

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

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

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 33, p. 76
ill. on p. 77

Bordeaux, Jean-Luc, François Le Moyne and his generation, 1688-1737, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1984
cat. D. 146 on p. 171
fig. 273

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. 78

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to the support.

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

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: “No 44.”; lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist: “f. Le Moyne”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, unclear and cut off: “[…] / annab[…] //”; upper left, only visible with transmitted light as the support must be made of at least two layers: an inscription in ink, obscured by the multiple sheets; right of centre, graphite, unclear, first line crossed through: “11 S / 9 Vanler //” accompanied with scrollwork and a circle crossed through diagonally several times; lower centre, graphite, circled: “12”; lower right corner, brown ink, cut off: “[…]n [?]”.

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