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Triumph of Neptune

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1594-1649

Title

Triumph of Neptune

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pricked for transfer, with added red chalk at upper right, on laid paper, cut into on oval, with brown ink framing lines, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 29.4 cm
Width: 42.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.581

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

Marquis Philippe de Chennevières, Paris and Bellesme (1820-1899), L.2073; possibly his estate sale, Paul Roblin (Paris), 4 - 7 April 1900, lot 394; Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Prat, Louis-Antoine and Rosenberg, Pierre, La collection Chennevières: Quatre siècles de dessins français, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2007
cat. no. 634
p. 145, pp. 383-84, cat no. 634
Illus. p. 384
as attributed to Perrier

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: Philippe de Chennevières (L.2073).

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