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Caricature of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, artist and art theorist (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Caricature of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, artist and art theorist (recto)

Date of Production

1645 - 1650

Medium

black and white chalk (recto), red chalk (verso), on brown laid paper, the right edge cut along the recto figure’s outline and then made up

Dimensions

Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 36.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1955.WF.4645

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1955 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


theorists






Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, March 1955

Exhibition History

Caricature and its role in graphic satire, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 07/04/1971-09/05/1971

Artists in 17th Century Rome, Wildenstein, London, 01/06/1955-16/07/1955

Literature

Artists in 17th Century Rome, Wildenstein, London, 1955
cat. no. 3
p. 4

Hofmann, Werner, Caricature from Leonardo to Picasso, New York 1957
pl. 11

Caricature and its role in graphic satire, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1971
cat. no. 68
ill.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: left centre edge black chalk, artist’s hand: “Le S[tilde above] / Dufresnoy / Explique les / accidens des / lumieres dun tableau / du titian a la / Servante de Mons[tilde above] / le Noir //”. Verso: left lower edge, graphite: upper right edge, brown ink: “21.Den.”; “2 Border to pattern O.K”; lower right corner, graphite: “l [?]”.

Collector's mark: none.

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