drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1214
- Description
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The courtesan; half-length to front, wearing rich costume: a low necked blue dress with slashed sleeves and a mauve scarf over one shoulder, blue ostrich feathers on her head, holding up a green purse in her left hand, a wooded landscape beyond with round tower. 1691
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum
- Production date
- 1691
- Dimensions
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Height: 102 millimetres
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Width: 86 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a companion piece to 2015,7063.1, 'drunken man holding a tankard'; the pair were united again after the drunkard appeared at auction in 2015.
Literature: Albert J.Elen, 'Ongemeen uitvoerig op Perkament met sapverven behandeld: De gekleurde tekeningen van Willem van Mieris uit de collectie Willem Witsen', in Delineavit et Sculpsit 15 (1995), pp. 1-22, cat.no.17.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018-2019, Oct 4 – 27 Jan, London, BM G90, Recent Acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1214