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Mountain landscape with river

Maker

Style of
(Artists)
1560-1631

Title

Mountain landscape with river

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 32.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1001

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792); his estate sale, Phillips (auction house), London, 5-26 March 1798, lot 362, [as per L.3016a on verso of historic mount, now removed and stored separately]; E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, before November 1927 [when he lent it to Berlin exhibition] (£8); Witt Bequest, 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More

Das flämische Landschaftsbild des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Gottschewski und Schäffer, Berlin, 06/11/1927-30/11/1927; Bochum, 1927-28

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927 ...Less

Literature

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 41

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132

Erdmann, Kurt, Repertorium for Kunstwissenschaft, 1928; XLIX
Illus. p. 218, abb. 6 ...More

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 556

Sotheby's (New York), Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries, 25 January, 2023.
cat. no. 3 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: Arms of Amsterdam (type B) (according to Peter Bower, first appears in 1680s).

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: right centre, graphite: "Momper fecit". Historic mount, now removed and stored separately: Recto, lower centre and lower left, graphite: 211 / 1001 Pen & bistre heightened in blue; Verso, lower centre edge, red ink, L.3016a: Lot 362.

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