Bust portrait of a woman
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Maker
Melchior Geldorp (artist)
1615-1637
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
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".
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
p. 126
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