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Youth lying on ground asleep

Maker

(artist)
1621-1674

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1655

Medium

brush and brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, the left half of the sheet damaged by water

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4287

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

Lionel Lucas, London (1822-1862), L.1733a; by descent to his nephew, Claude Lucas; his sale, Christie's (London), 9 December 1949, lot 70 (with three others, including D.1952.RW.4286); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£25.4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school. Online research catalogue. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/rembrandt_drawings/drawings_by_rembrandt.aspx, 2010
under Van den Eeckhout no. 9

Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8 December 1977 - 19 February 1978; Institut néerlandais, Paris, 16 March - 30 April 1978, 1977
p. 54

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 32 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 92 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: foolscap with five points above "4" above "D D" above three stacked circles (matches Churchill 345 - 17th century).

Inscription: Verso: lower left edge, graphite, Witt number: "4287"; lower right, graphite: "Open /#1 //".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Lionel Lucas (L.1733a). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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