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Rider and horse - design for a festival

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Rider and horse - design for a festival

Date of Production

(circa) 1650

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down, with large areas of loss filled in

Dimensions

Height: 35 cm
Width: 30.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4542

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

Franklyn (?); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

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. 62

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso (backing sheet): lower centre: circle with double borders containing a fleur-de-lis with a letter “V” above (similar but not exact match to Heawood 1591 and 1592).

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink: “2145”; lower left, graphite, faded: “880” and “6/”; lower centre edge, brown ink: “S Della Bella”; lower right, graphite, faded: “2”. Verso (backing sheet): upper left, graphite, circled: “15”; lower left, graphite: “£25-”; lower right, graphite, faded and abraded: “12/ / […] a / M[…]loza 15 […] //”. Newsprint fragment adhered to Verso (backing sheet): upper left edge, printed in black ink: “Un plat de pu[…] / un plat de […] / […] / […] supérieure depuis / Salons pou[…] / Paris. –Imprim[…] //”.

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