Allegorical female figure holding a kite: Temperance?
Maker
(artist)
1566-c. 1612
1566-c. 1612
Title
Allegorical female figure holding a kite: Temperance?
Date of Production
1500 - 1699
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.6 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4388
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
Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); acquired from him (in exchange for a de Gheyn drawing) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)
Literature
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 4
cat. no. 4
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: serpent wrapped around a column above a house (not found in Heawood or Piccard, Peter Bower had no further information about this mark).
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "33/2".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "33/2".
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