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Study for ceiling decoration, with figures on clouds including Flora and putti

Maker

(artist)
1695-1754

Title

Study for ceiling decoration, with figures on clouds including Flora and putti

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, cut into an octagon, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 34.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.884

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

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Provenance

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£4.9, also with D.1952.RW.949); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1929

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 55

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 33

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1929
no. 722

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Strasburg lily above “4” above monogram “WR”.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, signed by the artist, partly cut off: “JdeWitt. F. invt,”. Verso: lower left, graphite: “417.”; lower centre edge, brown ink, partly cut off: “Groode Blaffon voordrellengestrengen Steer – R[…]ier Bouwen Sch[…] en […] / […]dael //” [needs transcribing and translating].

Collector's mark: none.

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