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Study for The Conversion of Saint Paul

Maker

(artist)
1621-1676

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1628-1679

Title

Study for The Conversion of Saint Paul

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now oxidised) on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 41.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3592

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

Singer (?); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

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

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

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 12, p. 32
ill. on p. 33 (b&w) and np (colour)

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 56

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to backing sheet.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, signed by the artist?: “Bourguignon”; lower right corner, brown ink: “lloca [?]”. Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, graphite: “#1”.

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

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