Landscape with distant view of a town and church

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Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1605-1655
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1595-1672/73

Title

Landscape with distant view of a town and church

Date of Production

1620 - 1655

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.1002

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: too small to identify, though Peter Bower suggested may be part of a tall bishop's mitre.

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

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "V. Uden"; lower left corner, graphite: "513"; lower left edge, graphite, faded and almost illegible: "Dr L[...]l[...] S[...]ir"; lower right, graphite, faded, a four letter word now illegible; lower right corner, graphite, now mostly hidden under handling edge: "77" [?].

Provenance

Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 7-10 December 1920, lot 525 (as by van Uden); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Geeroms, Luc, ‘Lodewik de Vadder (1605-1655)’, Master’s diss., Ghent University, 1985
p. 242, Tw-1
Illus. 170
uncertain about the attribution to de Vadder
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132
Cannart d’Hamale, Emmanuel de with Dominique Bovet, Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655). Paintings, drawings, prints & tapestries, https://www.lodewijkdevadder.net/
CB no. 578
uncertain about the attribution to de Vadder
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Hofstede de Groot, C., Fichescollectie, RKD
baknummer 266, fichenummer 1553677
https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/550465 (as de Vadder)
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