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Dragon-shaped sleigh on ice

Maker

(artist)
1631-1690

Title

Dragon-shaped sleigh on ice

Date of Production

1658

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, black wash, watercolour, bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines
XRF examination indicated the likely presence of vermillion, bone black, red lead, yellow ochre, silver and gold, and a copper-based blue pigment, possibly azurite or bice

Dimensions

Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 30.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4548

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

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Provenance

Mrs G. Blois (?); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 5 December 1947; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 20 October 1951 (£9); 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. 44

Bernt, Walter, Die niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1957-1958
no. 94

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: Arms of Amsterdam (variant of Churchill 4 - dated 1659).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, faded, signed and dated by the artist's father (according to Holm Bevers, 2010): Geesken [altered from Geertsz] ter Borch. i658. Verso: lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number and price: A14989 L/-/-.

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

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