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Maker

(artist)
1594-1665

Title

Date of Production

1640 - 1649

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, with added horizontal lines in red chalk, on laid paper, laid down on Richardson’s mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 12.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.982

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

Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2983, L.2995/2996, L.2184; his estate sale, Christopher Cock (London), 22 January - 8 February 1747; purchased there by John Bouverie, England (around 1722-23-1750), L.325; by descent to his sister Anne Hervey (d. 1757); by descent to her son Christopher Hervey (d. 1786); by descent to his aunt Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798); by descent to Sir Charles Middleton (1726-1838); by descent to his grandson Charles Noel, later 1st Earl Gainsborough (1781-1866); his sale, London (Christie's), 20 July 1859, lot 112; purchased there by Hogarth (?) (2s, 6d); Christie's (London); purchased there via E. Parsons & Sons (London) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3.15); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by Nicolas Poussin from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 04/12/1990-17/02/1991

Literature

Rosenberg, Pierre and Prat, Louis-Antoine, Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Vol. I, Milan 1994
no. 231 on p. 456
Illus. p. 457

Drawings by Nicolas Poussin from British Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1990-1991
cat. no. 35

Blunt, Anthony, The drawings of Poussin, New Haven and London 1979
pp. 129-30 ...More

Blunt, Anthony and Friedlaender, Walter, The drawings of Nicholas Poussin: catalogue raisonne. Vol. V, Drawings after the antique, miscellaneous drawings, addenda, London 1974
no. 319 on p. 33
Illus. pl. 252 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check drawing sheet due to mount. Mount (Richardson’s), Verso: lower centre, visible in raking light: Pro Patria mark.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, centre, brown ink, artist’s hand: “Z?HC / ANAMNHCIC //”. Mount (Richardson’s), Recto: lower centre, brown ink, Richardson’s hand: “Poussin”; lower left corner, graphite: “15”; lower right corner, graphite: “51 / m/d //”; lower right corner, graphite: “14”. Mount (Richardson’s), Verso: upper centre, brown ink: “P.52. / I //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: John Bouverie (L.325); lower right, stamped in black ink: Jonathan Richardson the elder (L.2184). Mount (Richardson’s), Recto: lower centre, pen and brown ink, transcribed above: Jonathan Richardson the elder (L.2995 and L.2996); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). Mount (Richardson’s), Verso: upper centre, pen and brown ink: Jonathan Richardson the elder’s shelfmarks (L.2983).

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