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Monk in his cell presenting a tablet to two other figures outside

Maker

(artist)
1566-1651

Title

Date of Production

1500 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour, on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 8.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.71

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

Charles Fairfax Murray, London (1849-1919); possibly his estate sale, Christie's (London), 30 January 1920, lot 81 (if identified then by the title 'Peter delivered from Prison', 1of 15 drawings including 3 others by Bloemaert); if correctly identified, purchased there by ?Pilkington (£6.3 for all 15); Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952 [no Witt card but RW.70 and RW.72 were both purchased from F.R. Meatyard so perhaps this was too]

Exhibition History

Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965

Literature

Bolten, Jaap, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651: the drawings, 2007
no. 474 on p. 168
Illus. no. 474 on p. 216

G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 269

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: Verso, lower left corner and again on Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto, left of centre: stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto: upper left, graphite, with arrow pointing to circular brown stain: “Port?”; centre, brown ink: “S3 B.b. 55 4n / L56 //”; lower right corner, graphite: “Abraham Bloemart / 1564-1647 / Coll. Fairfax Murray //”.

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