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Back view of a fusilier advancing with his rifle (recto)
Ceiling decoration (?) (verso)

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1688-1752

Title

Back view of a fusilier advancing with his rifle (recto)
Ceiling decoration (?) (verso)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk, watercolour (recto), black and white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.2 cm
Width: 20.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3725

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




artillery




Provenance

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

Exhibition History

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

Literature

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 533

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Partial sheet from backing paper. Engraved on one side with volutes and festoons within a frame. With text (partial) from an abbreviated compendium of moral philosophy written in Latin (?).

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