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Page from a sketchbook - various figure scenes including a grotto and a ball

Maker

(artist)
1755-1830

Title

Page from a sketchbook - various figure scenes including a grotto and a ball

Date of Production

1780 - 1785

Medium

pen and grey ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 18.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.233

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

Gustave Soulier, Florence (1872-1937), L.1215a (lower left); Galerie de Bayser (Paris); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), March 1950; 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. 233
pl. LVIII
dated c. 1780-85

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as laid down on mount; none evident in raking light.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in blue: Gustave Soulier (L.1215a).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite: "size I".

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