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Design for a decorative frame

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Design for a decorative frame

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now oxidised and black) on laid paper, hinged at the left edge to a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 9.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4245

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

unidentified collector (not in Lugt); Marquis Charles de Valori, Paris (1820-1883), L.2500; Armand Sigwalt, Paris (1875-1952), L.175; Galerie A. Decour (Paris); Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Stamp: Verso, upper right corner, a circle: printed in red and white ink, the number filled ink with black ink: “GALERIE A. DECOUR PARIS” and “No. 443”.

Collector's mark: Recto: upper centre edge, stamped in black ink: unidentified collector’s mark (not found in Lugt); lower centre edge, stamped in blue ink: Charles de Valori (L.2500); lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: Armand Sigwalt (L.175). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, graphite: “xn/”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4245”; lower right, graphite: “602”; lower right corner, graphite: “#7”.

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