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Woman kneeling with her hands clasped

Maker

(artist)
1661-1722

Title

Woman kneeling with her hands clasped

Date of Production

1661-1722

Medium

black, red and white chalk, the latter applied in some areas as bodycolour, on grey-prepared laid paper, laid down on a historic support (same support as other Coypels in the collection)

Dimensions

Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 21 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3631

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




Notes

This study may be preparatory for a figure in the artist’s 1681 Visitation painted for the church of the Assumption on the rue Saint-Honoré, Paris. The painting is lost but known through an engraving.

Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 13 December 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 16 December 1944 (£6); 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

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956 ...Less

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 13, p. 34
ill. on p. 35 (b&w) and np (colour)

Garnier, Nicole, Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), Paris 1989
no. 627
fig. 554

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: "24"; lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A12739"; lower right corner, graphite: "C. Coypel". Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, graphite: "8 1/2 x 9 1/2".

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

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