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Holy Family

Maker

Copy after
(artist)
1546-1611

Title

Holy Family

Date of Production

1560 - 1611

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 16.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3948

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

F.A. Drey (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 130

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic), centre: "IHS" / IVILLEDARY"

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

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "Spranger". Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: "Green blue wash / Dark Frame //"; centre, graphite, underlined: "13"; lower left, graphite: "#2".

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