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Study after Mattei Ceres, known as 'Faustina'

Maker

(artist)
1837-1911

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1855

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 46.2 cm
Width: 27.2 cm

Accession Number

D.2014.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Jack Wakefield, gift, 2014

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This study after a classical statue was acquired from the same source as Legros’s 'Study after the Venus of Milo' (D.2-14.XX.1) which is signed and dated 1855. Both sheets are also comparable in size and both show copies after classical sculptures similarly carefully executed in graphite. Thus this undated drawing was certainly executed in the same period of Legros’s career. An early date is also indicated by certain difficulties in capturing the three dimensionality of the sculpture. The drawing thus gives good evidence of the purpose of such drawings in the education of artists when copying after the Antique.

Provenance

Gorringe's (South East England), September 2012, lot 1476 (along with D.2014.XX.1); purchased there by Jack Wakefield; Wakefield Gift 2014

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, lower left edge: “MICHALLET”.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, abraded: “No 58”. Support (removed, recorded in acquisition report), Verso: top centre, graphite: “Alphonse LEGROS 1855”; lower left corner, blue ink: “1/”.

Collector's mark: none.

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