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Hermit seated under a tree

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Hermit seated under a tree

Date of Production

1740s

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 30.3 cm
Width: 26.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.379

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

Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 30 May 1961; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 6 July 1961 (£2,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 27/06/1961-28/07/1961

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 379
pl. LXVI

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1961
cat. no. 2
no. 2
ill.

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
cat. no. 9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre, very difficult to read: includes three Medici balls, but rest too unclear.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “no 73” [written over an earlier inscription “no 14”]. Verso: centre, graphite: “(No 15.)”.

Collector's mark: none.

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