drawing
- Museum number
- 1909,0109.9
- Description
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A family group; at left beside a fountain, a gentleman sitting with broad-rimmed hat on his knee, a hound looking up at him, his wife behind and a young son in costume, carrying a dead hare and hunting horn, another hound at right and two dead hares in the foreground
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1640-1650 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Only five drawings are attributed to Coques in the catalogue raisonné; see Marion Lisken-Pruss, 'Gonzales Coques (1614-1684): Der kleine Van Dyck', Pictura Nova XIII, Turnhout, 2013, pp.327-330.
For another family group set in a garden see the painting by Coques in the Wallace Collection, London, inv.no.P92.
Literature: M. Lisken-Pruss, 'Gonzales Coques (1614-1684): Der kleine Van Dyck', Pictura Nova XIII, Turnhout, 2013, cat.no.Z3 (as probably not by Coques).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Acquisition notes
- 1909.0109.1 to 17 are drawings selected by Colvin from an exhibition held at the gallery of Obach & Co, and were exchanged with Obach for duplicate prints.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1909,0109.9