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Garden fete

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1592-1667

Title

Garden fete

Medium

graphite, red chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 25.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4566

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

O. Alexander (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 21 April 1949; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 November 1951 (£7, as 'Style of Inigo Jones'); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Alison Stoesser, Van Dyck's hosts in Genoa: Lucas and Cornelis de Wael's lives, business activities and works, Turnhout, 2018
cat. no. C126
p. 643
Vol. 2
Stoesser includes the drawing among the rejected attributions of Cornelis de Wael

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: left centre edge, graphite, circled: “6”; lower left graphite: “Calat / 30 //”; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number and price: “? corn de Wael A 16378 / A/-/- //”.

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