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Garden strewn with fruits, flowers and vegetables - study for 'Autumn'

Maker

(artist)
1573-1647

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with partial graphite framing lines; two horizontal red ink lines along the lower edge and again along the upper edge on the verso suggest this is ledger paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 40.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4564

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

W. Thompson; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 2 November 1948; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 November 1951 (£12); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 15

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 134

Inscriptions

Watermark: none. Peter Bower (2017 report): wire profile suggests an Italian origin for the paper.

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

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, green chalk: "9"; lower centre, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A 15911".

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