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Female figures playing cymbals and drum (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1734-1802

Title

Female figures playing cymbals and drum (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 24 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3876

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

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Provenance

a French collection (?) based on French instructions to a mountmaker on a formerly attached label); Reverend G.B. Mountford; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 28 October 1946; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 February 1947, for £12; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 41

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "223 [or 2B] / Allegri". Mount (removed): Recto: lower right, graphite: "598 / 33 1/2 | 25 1/2"; bottom right corner, graphite: "A13999"; lower centre, graphite: "faire les trais a la sepia"

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