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Bust portrait of a man

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Bust portrait of a man

Medium

black and red chalk with touches of graphite on laid paper (now heavily foxed), cut into an arch and laid down on light blue paper but only on the sides and upper edges

Dimensions

Height: 10.1 cm
Width: 7.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4086

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

J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 60

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

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

Watermark: none.

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