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Four drawings and five prints of figures and cattle

Maker

(engraver)
1722-1776

Attributed to
(artist)
1733-1808

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1703-1770

Title

Four drawings and five prints of figures and cattle

Date of Production

circa 1765 - 1770

Medium

from upper left corner to lower right corner: black crayon manner engraving counterproof; red crayon manner engraving, with pen and brown ink added by Hubert Robert; red crayon manner engraving; purplish-red crayon manner engraving; red crayon manner engraving; the following four drawings all in red-brown chalk; all mounted together and laid down on Hubert Robert’s mount (?)

Dimensions

Height: 42.4 cm
Width: 35.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1961.WF.4706

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase & grant aid with assistance of the Art Fund, 1961

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Hubert Robert, Paris (1733-1808); his estate sale, Paillet (Paris), 5 April 1809; Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854-1936), L.1768a; his estate sale, Charpentier (Paris), 28 May 1937, lot 32B; Henri Baderou (1910-1991); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 13 April 1961; purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund with the assistance of the Art Fund, 6 July 1961 (£450)

Exhibition History

The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015

Boucher - Landscapes, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 22/01/2005-27/03/2005

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004 ...More

Saving Art for the Nation - The Art Fund at the Wallace
Collection 1919-1975
, Manchester House & London & England, 06/11/2003-04/01/2004

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

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

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 27/06/1961-28/07/1961 ...Less

Literature

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1961
cat. no. 27
no. 27
pl. XI

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 47

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 88 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
No. 62, p. 66
ill. on p. 78 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to check due to the mount.

Inscription: Recto: engraving in upper left corner, lower right corner, cut off at edge, in reverse because a counterproof: “[…]er in. del.”; engraving top row, middle: lower right corner, graphite: “Ninette (Mme Favart). Mount (Robert’s), Recto: lower left corner, blue crayon, cut off: “25.”; lower left edge, graphite, cut off so that only legible letter is a “B”; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: “D25329”; lower right edge, grey ink over graphite: “Collection Hubert Robert.”. Mount (Robert’s), Verso: upper centre, a reproduction printed in red of one of the engravings on the recto, labelled in printed red ink “DEMARTEAU / Ninette / No 43” and added beside it in graphite “(Mme Favart)”; upper right, graphite, circled: “3”; centre graphite, circled: “651” and directly adjacent also circled “9”; lower left, graphite: “Ces dessins proviennent de la collection Hubert Robert, vendue en 1809”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner drawing at lower left corner, stamped in red ink: Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a).

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