Figure study - tiny figure on horseback (formerly 'A Horseman galloping')
Maker
(artist)
1610-1664
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
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
Keywords
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
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.
Inscription: none visible, though unable to examine verso.
Collector's mark: none visible, though unable to examine verso.
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