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L'Autel de l'Amitie (recto)
Faint sketch of female figure from recto (verso)

Maker

After
(artist)
1703-1770

Copy after
(artist)
1722-1776

Title

L'Autel de l'Amitie (recto)
Faint sketch of female figure from recto (verso)

Date of Production

1700-1799

Medium

black chalk with stumping (recto), black chalk (verso), on grey-brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4206

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

Exhibition History

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 1959

Literature

François Boucher in North American collections: 100 drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago Washington, D.C. 1973
p. 51 under no. 39

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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