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Cavalry battle

Maker

Jan Peeter Verdussen (artist)
1700-1763

Title

Cavalry battle

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, on laid paper with brown ink framing lines, extra lines ruled across the bottom over the drawing, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 33.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.985

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

François Renaud, Paris (active end 18th century-beginning 19th century), L.1042; Frederick Richard Meatyard, London (1881-1966); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London, (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 657

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped: François Renaud (L.1042). Verso (card support): lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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