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Mounted cavalryman with drawn sabre

Maker

(artist)
1688-1752

Title

Mounted cavalryman with drawn sabre

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk on brown laid paper, with an added strip at the lower edge (the foot made up on it later, or is it original?)

Dimensions

Height: 41.6 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

D.1955.WF.4644

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


sabers



Provenance

K.E. Maison (London); purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, 1955

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956 ...Less

Literature

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 77

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 42

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 532
fig. 180 ...More

Schuman, Jack Crosby, Charles Parrocel 1688-1752, Phd Thesis, University of Washington 1979
no. D63 (?)
the entry apparently refers to the wrong figure

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985
cat. no. 36

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 41, p. 92
ill. on p. 93 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: “L” topped by a small crown (? Difficult to see clearly but could be a variant of Heawood 3012 – Paris 1683).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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