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Defense of a thesis at the Sorbonne by the Abbot of Ventadour

Maker

(artist)
1715-1790

Title

Defense of a thesis at the Sorbonne by the Abbot of Ventadour

Date of Production

1738

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash, white bodycolour, on laid paper, squared in graphite and grey ink, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 35.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1955.WF.4621

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1955

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Witt Fund Purchase 1955

Literature

Burns, Thea, 'The prestige of pastel: Robert Nanteuil's pastel portraits and thesis engravings' in 'Dear print fan: a festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn', Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002 - pp. 43-47
p. 45
fig. 2 on p. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Mount (historic), Verso: right centre, circle containing bunch of grapes (variant of that seen as a countermark in Heawood 2395 – Paris 1778).

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, left edge, graphite, artist's hand: "ecole dathenes"; left centre, graphite, artist's hand: "parnasse"; centre, graphite, artist's hand: "Lembrasemer [?] / de Troye //". Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist?: "C.N. Cochin filius inven. et delin. 1738."; lower centre, graphite: "100. (100)"; lower right, graphite: "4589". Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite: "Joubert / Pag 19 //".

Collector's mark: none.

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