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Return from the hunt

Maker

(artist)
1725-1805

Title

Return from the hunt

Date of Production

(circa) 1775

Medium

black chalk, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 33 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3868

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

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

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985

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

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959 ...Less

Literature

Munhall, Edgar, Greuze the draftsman, New York 2002
p. 212 under no. 75
fig. 184 on p. 212

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 25, p. 56
ill. on p. 57

Borne, François, 'Excellence in obscurity: French drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art' in 'Apollo', September 1991 - pp. 192-94; CXXXIV, 355
p. 194 ...More

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985
cat. no. 25

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 322

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 74 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned shield with a horn above “D & CB” (Dirk Blauw, North Holland, 1750 and after - see Gravell and Miller 1983, pp. 51, 221 and Voorn 1960, pp. 413-19). Backing sheet (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: left centre edge: “MOYEN / NORMANDIE / [last 2 lines illegible] //”.

Inscription: Backing sheet (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “600”; centre, graphite: “premiere pensee pour son tableau / "...... / rnp[?] / J B Greuze //”.

Collector's mark: none.

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