Allegorical female figure
Maker
(artist)
1659-1725
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
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
Keywords
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
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).
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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