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Designs for the decoration of a door representing the Tragedy of Oedipus

Maker

(artist)
1841-1919

Title

Designs for the decoration of a door representing the Tragedy of Oedipus

Date of Production

(circa) 1895

Medium

black chalk on thin tracing paper (now yellowed) (checked media under VSC 8000)

Dimensions

Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 40.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.244

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

Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924) (according to Burlet); Charles Albert de Burlet, dealer in Basel (1882-1956); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 26 January 1955 (2,000 Swiss francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Renoir - Tradition and Innovation, National Art Center, Tokyo, 20/01/2010-05/04/2010; National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17/04/2010-27/06/2010

Literature

Renoir - Tradition and Innovation, Osaka and Tokyo, 2010
cat. no. 62
erroneously listed in the catalogue as D.1978.PG.245

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 244
pl. LXIX
dated c. 1895

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, grey ink, circled: "B" [could this be related to the "B" on the verso of D.1978.PG.245? Different media and hands but perhaps related, see photos].

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