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Classroom of monkeys

Maker

Copy after

1610-1690

Formerly attributed to
Nicolaes van Veerendael
1640-1691

Title

Classroom of monkeys

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 33.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4209

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







Spanking

Provenance

Konstantinoff (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Schepers, B., Monkey madness in seventeenth-century Antwerp, PhD diss., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2016
vol. II, p. 350, no. B70
as follower of David Teniers II

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed but mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower left, graphite: "N2192". Mount (removed but mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "#11". Mount (removed but mounted with the drawing), Verso: left centre, graphite: "Verendal"; lower left edge, graphite, Witt number written incorrectly: "4029".

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