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Study of a portico (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1733-1808

Title

Date of Production

1754 - 1765

Medium

black chalk (recto and verso) on laid paper, the lower corners cut; inlaid into paper margins

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 10.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.231

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

probably Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893); his sale, Morganol and Delestre (Paris), 26-27 May 1893, lot 102 (this lot was an album of 65 drawings by Hubert Robert which later passed into the Deglatigny collection, so Seilern assumed it included this drawing); purchased there by Moraud (1,000 francs); Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854-1936), L.1768a (lower left); possibly included in his sale at Féral, Catroux et Huteau (Paris), 14-15 June 1937 (according to Lugt, 32 lots at this sale derived from the Destailleur album listed above); Atherton (1863-1943) and Louise Burleigh Curtis (1869-1910), Mount Kisco, New York; their estate sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein (Bern), 28 April 1955, lot 381; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 10 May 1955 (£10.18); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 231
pl. LVI
dated c. 1754-65

Inscriptions

Watermark: Verso, right centre edge, royal cipher: "GR".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in red: Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a).

Inscription: Margins (historic), Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "65.".

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