Medallion portrait head of an abbot (P.F. Copette?)
Maker
(artist)
1715-1790
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
Keywords
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
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.
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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