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Dog guarding a sleeping child

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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).

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