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Figure study - group of card players at left, man at right bending over, study of his torso at centre

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1642

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support, verso prepared with black chalk apparently only behind the two groups at sides (no evidence of incised lines)

Dimensions

Width: 10.3 cm
Height: 5.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.118.2

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

John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella including D.1978.PG.118.1 and .3, D.1978.PG.120.1-.6 and D.1978.PG.123.1-.3); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 118b
pl. LXXVIII
dated c. 1642

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: "49" [Seilern thought it was "69", which is possible, though "69" is the number on D.1978.PG.123.2]. Support, Verso: centre, graphite: “3”.

Collector's mark: none.

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