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Apollo as Helios, with Pegasus (recto)
Torso of a male nude turning away and a building with columns (verso)
Apollo in Glory

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1618-1682

Title

Apollo as Helios, with Pegasus (recto)
Torso of a male nude turning away and a building with columns (verso)
Apollo in Glory

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, green and brown watercolour, with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 34.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.511

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

Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (7 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: top of a Strasburg lily. Former backing sheet (removed and now loose in the mount with the drawing), Recto: right centre edge: fragment of a Strasburg lily above letters “C&I[…]”; Countermark: Recto: left centre: “IV” (matches Heawood 1824 – no location or date given).

Inscription: Former backing sheet (removed and now loose in the mount with the drawing), Recto: occupied with black chalk outline drawing of large figural group, including a figure kneeling and receiving a gift; centre, graphite, Witt number: “511”; lower right brown ink, Greek?: “Di?ntgf [?] D?tocko [?]”. Former backing sheet, Verso (now laid down on Japanese tissue): lower right corner, graphite, circled: “7”. Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in file), Verso: ink: “Lepotre istoria”.

Collector's mark: Former backing sheet (removed and now loose in the mount with the drawing), Verso (now laid down on Japanese tissue): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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