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Design for a frontispiece

Maker

(artist)
1596-1675

Title

Design for a frontispiece

Date of Production

1610 - 1675

Medium

black chalk, grey wash, white (partially oxydised) and black bodycolour on laid paper, incised for transfer, remnants of black chalk preparation on verso

Dimensions

Height: 36 cm
Width: 26.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.887

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

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); E. Parsons & Sons (London), cat. 38, 1921, lot 121; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£3.7); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Steadman, David W., Abraham van Diepenbeeck: seventeenth-century Flemish painter, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1992
p. 63

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: circle containing fleur-de-lis, topped by small crown (similar to Briquet 7111 though not an exact match - Pérouse, 1544. Peter Bower described it as an Italian-made paper from the mid-17th century, being a variant of Heawood 1632 - Rome, 17th century).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: in centre of drawing on drapery, black chalk, very faint: “TEEK[...]” [either from the Dutch word for drawing, tekening or draughtsmanship tekenkunst. Verso: right of centre, black ink: “Aston”; twice, at lower centre and lower left, graphite: “Diepenbeck”; lower left edge, graphite: “Coll Sir John Stirling Maxwell / RW.887”.

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