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Figure study - tiny figure on horseback (formerly 'A Horseman galloping')

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Figure study - tiny figure on horseback (formerly 'A Horseman galloping')

Date of Production

1637 - 1661

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away, laid down on Seilern's mount

Dimensions

Height: 1.8 cm
Width: 4.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.117.3

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Samuel Woodburn (London); Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 224 (16 drawings of 'Military and other subjects, by Della Bella' including D.1978.PG.116.1-.2, D.1978.PG.117.1-.2, D.1978.PG.119.1-.3 and D.1978.PG.121-122, 126); purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 117c
pl. LXXVII
too difficult to date

Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, no.6 on p. 226

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
no. 2h on p. 123

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check, as is laid down.

Inscription: none visible, though unable to examine verso.

Collector's mark: none visible, though unable to examine verso.

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