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Rape of Proserpina (recto)

Maker

Claude Gillot (artist)
1673-1722

Title

Rape of Proserpina (recto)

Date of Production

1600 - 1799

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash (recto), black chalk with pen and grey ink, red chalk (offset?) (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.3 cm
Width: 16.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1960.WF.4702

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1960

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Sir Albert Napier (1881-1973); his sale, Christie's (London), 14 October 1958, lot 68; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Boston Museum, 31 March 1959 (£45); purchased back from them by Colnaghi (London), 29 March 1960; purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, 20 May 1960 (£50)

Literature

Moulinier, Axel, Cahiers du dessin français: Les satellites de Watteau, Paris, De Bayser Sarl Éditeur 2020
p. 11, no. 6
ill. on p. 44

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: half of a large circle containing lower limbs of figures? Too fragmentary to identify.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: "Gillot".

Collector's mark: none.

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