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Study for portrait of Czarina Anna of Russia

Maker

(artist)
1685-1752

Title

Study for portrait of Czarina Anna of Russia

Date of Production

(before) 1734

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (red), bodycolour (white) on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 45.2 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3905

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






Related Works

Full length portrait of Anna, Czarina of Russia

Provenance

F.R. Meatyard (London), c. 1925 (see Claye 1974, p. 42); purchased from him by Julian G. Lousada, London (c. 1874-1945), by 1928 (as part of a sketchbook containing at least 15 Amigoni drawings, see Claye 1974, p. 42); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 7 March 1947, lot 1 (with 3 others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£17, along with D.1952.RW.3906 and G.1990.WL.1766); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Chiara Lo Giudice, 'Un gruppo di disegni inglesi di ritratto e qualche nota sulla fortuna di Jacopo Amigoni in Inghilterra' in Arte Veneta, 79, Milan 2022
p. 180
(as anonymous eighteenth-century draughtsman)

Claye, Elaine, 'A group of portrait drawings by Jacopo Amigoni' in 'Master Drawings', Spring 1974 - 41-48, 97-101; 12, 1
no. 1 on p. 43, pp. 42 and 48 under nos. 29-30 and 34

Vertue, G., 'Notebooks' in 'Walpole Society', 1951-52; VI
p. 192 ...More

Vertue, G., 'Notebooks' in 'Walpole Society', 1933-34; III
p. 74

Voss, H., "Jacopo Amigoni und die Aufange der Malerei des Rokqko in Venedig' in 'Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen', 1918; XXXI
p. 151

Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes: contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont décrites les estampes rares, précieuses et intéressantes, avec l'indication de leurs différents états et des prix, auxquels ces estampes..., Paris 1854-1889; 4 vols
p. 167, under no. 9
need to verify whether the drawing is actually mentioned or just the print ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 27

Inscription: 30.

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: H

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