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Head of a guinea-fowl

Maker

(artist)
1864-1901

Title

Head of a guinea-fowl

Date of Production

1897 - 1898

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.3 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.248

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

M. et Mme. Maurice Bunau-Varilla; their sale, Hôtel Drouot (Paris), 9-10 July 1947, lot 9 (2 albums of drawings by Toulouse-Laturec, this drawing in the 1st album); information supplied by Lucas Lichtenhan (Basel) and thus probably purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), probably November or December 1954 (based on letters in file); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, Österreichische Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1966

Literature

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988
cat. no. 37
dated 1897-98

Dortu, M.G., Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, New York 1971
no. D.4592

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 248
corrected title to 'Head of a guinea-fowl' ...More

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, Österreichische Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1966
cat. no. 62
and on p. 24

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 248
pl. LXXIII
as 'Head of a Turkey', dated c. 1899 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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