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Studies of felines

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Studies of felines

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 38.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3975

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

the artist's estate sale, F. Petit and Tedesco (Paris), 17 - 19 February 1864, probably lot 485, L.838a; Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962 ...More

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

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

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...Less

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 14, p. 36
ill. on p. 37

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 69

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: shield containing letters "HP", flanked by laurel leaves and crowned with a laurel wreath.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, underlined, somewhat obscured by tissue but is mark of Paul Prouté: "11&F".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in red ink: Eugène Delacroix (L.838a).

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