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Spectators watching a performing bear

Maker

(artist)
1745-1830

Title

Spectators watching a performing bear

Date of Production

1700 - 1899

Medium

red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey-blue wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a page of printed French text, hinged at the top to a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4189

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 22 June 1949, lot 30 (with two others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£9 for all three); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to backing sheet.

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

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): printed text in two columns: “au climat du bouchet, contrée de fontaine-dessalée […] coupe, ci 30 arp, 6,1 perch. […]” [not fully transcribed, text not found online]; lower left, between text columns, graphite: “#2”; lower left, between text columns, partly erased: “5 x 6[…]”. Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: “#2”.

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