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New Year's Eve party

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

Davies, Randall, Chats on Old English Drawings, 1923
p. 76 ...Less

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".

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