Bust portrait of a woman

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Maker

Melchior Geldorp (artist)
1615-1637

Title

Bust portrait of a woman

Date of Production

1612

Medium

black chalk with stumping, pen and grey and brown inks, on grey laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.8 cm
Width: 13.2 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.4577

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: circular - unable to decipher through the paper colouration.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist?: "Melchior gortius Comfictus geldorp fecit 1612".

Provenance

Captain H. Crewe (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 7 February 1951; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 11 January 1952 (£6); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 126

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