Dog guarding a sleeping child
Maker
(artist)
1599-1660
1599-1660
Title
Dog guarding a sleeping child
Date of Production
(1 November) 1623
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now oxidised) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, incised for transfer
Dimensions
Height: 18.3 cm
Width: 27.1 cm
Width: 27.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4172
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
Jacob Herman Jan Mellaert (1875-1972), London; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8 December 1977 - 19 February 1978; Institut néerlandais, Paris, 16 March - 30 April 1978, 1977
p. 73n8
p. 73n8
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: an ax (not found in Heawood, Piccard or Briquet).
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, graphite, dated by the artist?: “1623 1 November”. Verso: upper right corner, brown ink: “e en Mademoiselle G”; lower right, graphite, underlined: “W 48”; lower centre, graphite: “fr,a”; lower right corner, graphite, written over another inscription now very faded but which probably reads “Matham”: “#2 / Open //”; lower left edge, graphite, Witt number: “4172”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, graphite, dated by the artist?: “1623 1 November”. Verso: upper right corner, brown ink: “e en Mademoiselle G”; lower right, graphite, underlined: “W 48”; lower centre, graphite: “fr,a”; lower right corner, graphite, written over another inscription now very faded but which probably reads “Matham”: “#2 / Open //”; lower left edge, graphite, Witt number: “4172”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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