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Arch of the west porch of the church at Guibray, Normandy

Maker

(artist)
1782-1842

Title

Arch of the west porch of the church at Guibray, Normandy

Date of Production

1821

Medium

graphite and brown wash on wove paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4098

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




archivolts


Provenance

S. Gould (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 2 February 1949; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 15 February 1949, for £12; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

La Normandie romantique et pittoresque, Musee des Beaux-Arts & Rouen & France, 16/05/2009-16/08/2009

Voyages pittoresques : Normandie, 1820-2009, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; Musée Malraux du Havre; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2009

Tresors des Abbayes Normandes, Musee des Antiquites, Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen, 27/04/1979-28/10/1979

Literature

Goujard, Lucie et al. (eds), Voyages pittoresques Normandie 1820-2009, Milan 2008
no. I-13
ill. p. 227

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: left lower centre, graphite, described in artist's hand: "West doorway of the Church at Guibray."; right lower centre, graphite, signed and dated: "J:S:Cotman 1821"; lower left edge, graphite: "West doorway of the Church at Guibray, at Falaise"; lower right corner, graphite, erased, Colnaghi number: "A 16112 [...]/6".

Collector's mark: none.

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