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Figure study - group of soldiers with staffs, some only partially rendered (formerly 'Three soldiers')

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Figure study - group of soldiers with staffs, some only partially rendered (formerly 'Three soldiers')

Date of Production

(circa) 1640 - 1645

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on Seilern's mount

Dimensions

Height: 7.7 cm
Width: 6.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.119.3

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 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. 119c
pl. LXXIX
dated c. 1640-45

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, p. 226, no. 6

Inscriptions

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

Inscription: none visible, though unable to examine the verso.

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

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