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Abraham burying Sarah

Maker

(artist)
1503-1586

Formerly attributed to
Adriaen Pietersz. Crabeth (artist)
died 1553

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1523-1605

Title

Abraham burying Sarah

Date of Production

1563 - 1580

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white and grey bodycolour on blue laid paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 26.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1965.WF.4739

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1965 (May)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (1770-1862); his forced sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 24 September 1827, L.2731; Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; his sale, R.W.P. de Vries (Amsterdam), 27 March 1925, lot 362 (as Stradanus, 'Burial of Jacob'); anonymous sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 9-10 December 1930, no. 480 (as Stradanus); Albert Welcker, Amsterdam (1884-1957), L.2793c; Yvonne ffrench (London); purchased from her by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund (as Crabeth), May 1965 (£80)

Exhibition History

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

Old master drawings, Yvonne ffrench at the Alpine Club Gallery, London, 1965 (May)

Literature

Dacos, Nicole, 'Peeter de Kempeneer / Pedro Campaña as a draughtsman' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 1987 - pp. 359-89 and 422-33; 25, 4
pp. 370, 373, 375
pl. 10

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 11
as Crabeth

Old master drawings, Yvonne ffrench at the Alpine Club Gallery, London, 1965 (May)
cat. no. 10
ill.
as Crabeth

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “32”. Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “BWG”; lower left edge, brown ink, Welcker’s inventory number: “Inv. No. 1395”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: City of Leipzig forced sale (L.2731); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Dolgoroukoff (L.2602d); lower left corner, stamped in blue ink and accompanied by an inventory number (transcribed above): Albert Welcker (L.2793c).

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