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Medallion portrait head of an abbot (P.F. Copette?)

Maker

(artist)
1715-1790

Title

Medallion portrait head of an abbot (P.F. Copette?)

Date of Production

1771

Medium

graphite, red chalk on laid paper, cut into a circle, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 10.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3921

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

purchased by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) in Paris, date unknown, for 15 shillings; Witt bequest, 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Jombert, Charles-Antoine, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; Ecuyer, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roy..., Paris, 1770
no. 13 on p. 123 (under a separate section for medallion portraits)
says the drawing was engraved first in 1753 by H. Watelet, then again in 1765 by M. Watelet; this at odds with the inscription on the drawing which says it was drawn by Cochin in 1771, and indeed this reference by Jombert was published in 1770

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto: right centre edge, fragment: top of small fleur-de-lis.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite, signed and dated by the artist: cochin del 1771. Verso: centre, graphite: 29. Mount (historic), Recto: a ete grave par Walletet [sic], Jombert 13 ; lower right, graphite, cut off: 26.

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