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Half length study of a woman

Maker

(artist)
1755-1834

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1741-1807

Title

Half length study of a woman

Date of Production

1755 - 1834

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper; slight black and red chalk offset on verso suggests this was kept in an album with similar sketches

Dimensions

Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 9.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.707.1

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




Related Works

Half length study of a woman Head of a woman in lace headdress, looking down (recto)

Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (with D.1952.RW.707.2); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left corner, fragment: tip of a small crown topped by a cross (looks like the crowns used as countermarks to Pro Patria marks, i.e. Churchill 139 or 151, although the cross here is single lines. NB that RW.709.2 has a fragment of "GR" also very similar, though not a match to Churchill 151, so these were probably cut from the same sheet with a Pro Patria mark and countermark).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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