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Amor mocked from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Maker

(artist)
1716-1809

Title

Amor mocked from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Date of Production

1794 - 1796

Medium

pen and grey-brown ink, brown wash, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount (same as D.1932.XX.3-6)

Dimensions

Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3717

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

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Provenance

purchased from the artist, probably by William Beckford (1760-1844); Tomás Harris, London (1908-1964); purchased from him at the Spanish Gallery (London) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

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

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

Literature

Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand, Joseph-Marie Vien. Peintre du Roi (1716-1809), Paris 1988
fig. 159

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 707

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

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

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “L’amour moqué et exposé à la risée.”; lower left corner, brown ink: “9.”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “J.M Vien ( / Others from same sketchbook in / British Museum, Berlin, Courtauld Institute //”; right of centre, dark brown ink, circled with a monogram: “82 Jh” (not in Lugt); lower right corner, grey ink, circled but crossed out twice: “554”.

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