Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

1723-1792

Female Nude

Black and white chalk, on paper.

16 1/16 x 11 1/4 inches (407 x 285 mm)

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

1976.21

Notes:

Watermark: "I V".

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of drawing at upper right in pen and brown ink, "A true Sketch / By Sir J. Reynolds. / From the collection of / Dowager Marchioness of / Thomond / Sold By Me Christie, / Saturday May 26 Pall Mall 1821"; inscribed on verso of mount at left, in pen and black ink, a quotation from Edward Edwards, "Anecdotes of Painters" (1808 edition), 208; also provenance references (see under "Provenance" below); inscribed at right in pen and black ink in the same hand, "Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., / 1723-1792"; inscribed at right in graphite, "Ex collection of Sir Edward Marsh / all the inscriptions in Ink are in hand of (Her)bert Horne / G532 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 Case I".

Provenance:

Mary Palmer, later Marchioness of Thomond, niece of the artist; her sale, London, Christie's, 26 May 1821, perhaps in lot 60; Dr. Edward Biggal; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1901, lot 89; Herbert Horne (according to inscription on mount); Sir Edward Marsh (according to inscription on mount); H.C. Green; sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 October 1961, lot 134; Dame Rebecca West.

Associated names:

Palmer, Mary, 1750-1820, former owner.
Biggall, Edward, former owner.
Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Green, H. C., former owner.
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983, former owner.

Bibliography:

English Watercolor Drawings, exhibition catalogue, London, Spink and Sons, Ltd., 1976, no. 115, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 286-287.

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