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Full length view of a gentleman leaning on a pedestal, with two studies of the left foot in the lower right corner

Maker

(artist)
1708-1767

Title

Full length view of a gentleman leaning on a pedestal, with two studies of the left foot in the lower right corner

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black, red and white chalk on blue laid paper, the verso prepared with black chalk only in the area of the figure and the lines of the figure incised for transfer

Dimensions

Height: 45.3 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.878

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

George Peter Dudley Wallis, Manchester and London (1883-1977); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by January 1926 (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 29

Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, black chalk: “5”. Verso: upper right corner, graphite: “No8”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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