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Woman seated with a bowl

Maker

(artist)
1591-1621

Title

Date of Production

early 1620s

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines on three sides

Dimensions

Height: 13.6 cm
Width: 9.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3817.1

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 drawing is one of a series of 11 studies, likely designs for engravings, to which D.1952.RW.3817.1-.3 belong, as well as six drawings in the British Museum and two in the Lugt Collection, Paris. No engravings after them are known, and none were incised for transfer, so the project was likely abandoned. The general theme is the illustration of costumes worn by members of different social classes, which correspond to a date in the early 1620s.

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; given by him to Sir Robert Witt, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Willem Buytewech, Rotterdam and Paris, 1974-1975

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968 ...More

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 15

Willem Buytewech, Rotterdam, November 1974 - January 1975; Paris, January - March 1975, 1974-1975
cat. no. 78
ill.

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 61 ...More

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
no. 1
pl. LXXII ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite: "V-3"; lower right corner, graphite: "# A".

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

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