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Allegorical female figure

Maker

(artist)
1659-1725

Title

Allegorical female figure

Date of Production

1659 - 1725

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment; now secured at all sides to the modern mount so unable to see verso

Dimensions

Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 17.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4223

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. Price; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 28 July 1949; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 29 September 1949, as 'Vanitas Prudence' (£15); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 32

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: n/a.

Inscription: Recto: upper right (on Cupid's banner), brown ink: "RESPICIT ET PROSPICIT". Backing sheet? (removed, see photo), Verso: upper centre, graphite, with a diagram, hard to read: "file / Man / file"; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A. 16695".

Collector's mark: Removed (from former backing sheet?), now glued to new mount, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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