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Still life - dead game with a landscape background (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1611-1661

Title

Still life - dead game with a landscape background (recto)

Date of Production

1625 - 1661

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk (verso), on buff laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3848

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

Weber (?); Friedrich Wilhelm Fink, Vienna (1796-1861), L.928; Singer (?); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£18); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

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

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 49

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 126

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: quartered shield with swords lodged behind it and more large ornamentation above (not found in the literature).

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower left edge, graphite: Friedrich Wilhelm Fink (L.928).

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite: “40”; upper centre, graphite, unclear: “£223 Zi” [?]; lower left and centre, graphite, partly erased: “sam Weber gekaft [?] / […] / £1 fl.10- / 108 / JM [?] //”.

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