New Year's Eve party
Maker
(artist)
1679-1772
1679-1772
Title
New Year's Eve party
Date of Production
1732 - 1733
Medium
graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm
Width: 24.7 cm
Width: 24.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.682
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
New Year
Provenance
Matthew Ashton (active 1718-1728); Leicester Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), by January 1926 (as it appears in 'Connoisseur' January 1926 as in Witt's collection) (£6.3); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Tate Gallery, London, 01/07/1967-30/07/1967
Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Aldeburgh Festival, 03/06/1967-25/06/1967
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
Caricatures et Moeurs Anglaises, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris and Bordeaux, 1938 ...Less
Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Aldeburgh Festival, 03/06/1967-25/06/1967
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
Caricatures et Moeurs Anglaises, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris and Bordeaux, 1938 ...Less
Literature
Raines, Robert, Marcellus Laroon, London and New York, 1967
no. 48
Illus. pl. 11
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30
Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
Illus. no. XI ...More
no. 48
Illus. pl. 11
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30
Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
Illus. no. XI ...More
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: bottom of a large-fleur-de-lis.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: "Designed for Mr Mat: Ashton"; lower right, graphite, signed and dated: "M. Laroon F 1732/3".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: "Designed for Mr Mat: Ashton"; lower right, graphite, signed and dated: "M. Laroon F 1732/3".
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