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Study for a portrait of a lady (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1694-1739

Title

Study for a portrait of a lady (recto)

Medium

red and white chalk (recto and verso) on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.8 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.914

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, before 1926 (£2.8); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: 914 / Vanderbank.

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

Watermark: none.

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