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Studies of head and hands of a child

Maker

(artist)
1708-1787

Title

Studies of head and hands of a child

Medium

red chalk on laid paper, laid down on a historic paper support with red ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 29.6 cm
Width: 21 cm

Accession Number

D.1960.WF.4703

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1960 (11 November)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Gallipere Album (? a former curator wrote in the object file that this was part of the 'Gallipere Album' but no further information and no research thus far has shed light on the identity of this name); Yvonne ffrench, London (1901-1989); purchased from her by the Courtauld Gallery via the Witt Fund, 18 November 1960 (£25)

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

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

Literature

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 43
no. 43

Sestieri, Giancarlo and Renato Roli, I disegni italiani del Settecento, 1981
p. 98
fig. 165

Clark, Anthony M., Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford, 1985
D101 on p. 382 ...More

Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London/Yale University Press 2016
p. 662 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: centre: a circle - unable to see what it contains.

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