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Sacrifice of Isaac

Maker

(artist)
1545-1615

Title

Sacrifice of Isaac

Date of Production

1500 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and black inks, brown-yellow wash on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 30.7 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4498

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

sale of property of a Gentleman, Sotheby's (London), 25 April 1951, lot 26 (with D.1952.RW.4499, both as by Jean de Hoey); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: possibly at centre, but is obscured by a repair made to the vertical fold down the centre, which is sandwiched between the drawing and the backing sheet.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, artist's monogram: "JDH". Verso (backing sheet), upper left and entire right half of sheet taken up with brown ink letter in German, cut off at top, the right half covered by residue from a former support, seems to mention "Nabburg" and is dated at lower right "Nbris anno / 1691"; left lower edge, graphite: "Jean de Hoey / 1545-1615 / peintre d'Henri IV / u. Nagler. II. 432 / Wurzbach. I. 698 ."; lower left corner, blue crayon: "D. Hopfer". Recto of the backing sheet (only visible from the recto of the drawing with transmitted light), lower right, brown ink: inscription in Dutch.

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