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Four studies of a lion's head

Maker

(artist)
1802-1873

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1805-1876

Title

Four studies of a lion's head

Date of Production

(circa?) 1862

Medium

graphite, black red and white chalk on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 27.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3615

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





Label Text

When used with paper with a suitably textured surface, chalks spread swiftly and easily, which would enable Landseer to make studies such as these directly from life despite the animal's movements.

Provenance

John Deffett Francis, Swansea (1815-1901), L.1445 (lower centre); Peter Wilson, London (1913-1984); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 31 August 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 9 October 1944; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’, National Gallery, London, 28/11/2018-03/02/2019

Material Evidence, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/1998-24/01/1999

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951 ...More

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...Less

Literature

Mathew Norman, "Drawings of lions by Sire Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) and the Trafalgar Square Monument" British Art Journal 21, no. 2 (2020), pp. 38-45
42
ill. p. 42

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 35 ...More

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 47 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre edge, blindstamped: John Deffett Francis (L.1445). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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