Peasant reeling
Maker
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1610-1685
(artist)
1610-1685
Title
Peasant reeling
Date of Production
1600 - 1699
Medium
pen and brown ink, brown wash, white chalk, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 8.1 cm
Width: 8.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3755
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
Mrs A. Levey (?); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 20 June 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 23 July 1945 (£22); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Special Display - Drawing Peasants, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/09/2010-10/02/2011
The Primacy of Drawing, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 21/09/1991-03/11/1991; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 09/11/1991-05/01/1992; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 11/01/1992-23/02/1992
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.) ...More
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966 ...Less
The Primacy of Drawing, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 21/09/1991-03/11/1991; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 09/11/1991-05/01/1992; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 11/01/1992-23/02/1992
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.) ...More
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966 ...Less
Literature
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 51
ill. on p. 59
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 41
no. 41
cat. no. 51
ill. on p. 59
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 41
no. 41
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, artist’s monogram in reverse and right-way around: “OVA / AV.O. //”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, artist’s monogram in reverse and right-way around: “OVA / AV.O. //”.
Collector's mark: none.
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