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Seated woman holding a child on her lap

Maker

(artist)
1565-1629

Title

Seated woman holding a child on her lap

Date of Production

(circa) 1605 - 1610

Medium

pen and brown ink on brown laid paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4001

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

Frits Lugt (1884-1970); acquired from him (in exchange for a Guercino drawing, Witt's drawing no. 1360, and a de Bisschop drawing, Witt's drawing no. 80) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Literature

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 35
pp. 78, 180-81
ill. on p. 79

Museum Boijmans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, 14 December 1985 - 9 February 1986; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 9 March - 11 May 1986, Jacques de Gheyn II Drawings
p. 22
pl. 7

Regteren Altena, J.Q. van, Jaques de Gheyn, Three Generations, The Hague, Boston and London 1983
vol. II, no. 594
vol. III, pl. 330 ...More

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 12

Judson, J. Richard, The drawings of Jacob de Gheyn II, New York 1973
vol. I, p. 20
pl. 84

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 126 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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