Still life - dead game with a landscape background (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1611-1661
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
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
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
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 [?] //”.
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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