Landscape with shepherds and flock (recto)
Rough sketch of trees and profile head (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1605-1655

Title

Landscape with shepherds and flock (recto)
Rough sketch of trees and profile head (verso)

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour with black ink framing lines (recto), pen and brown ink and graphite covered with graphite scribbles (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 13.6 cm
Width: 21.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1003

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Cinq siecles d'art, Brussels, 1935

Literature

Cannart d’Hamale, Emmanuel de with Dominique Bovet, Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655). Paintings, drawings, prints & tapestries, https://www.lodewijkdevadder.net/
CB no. 581 (recto) and 582 (verso)
as de Vadder

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 24
Illus. p. 73

Geeroms, Luc, ‘Lodewik de Vadder (1605-1655)’, Master’s diss., Ghent University, 1985
p. 29, T-3
Illus. 154
as 'Attributed to de Vadder' ...More

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

Parker, K.T., 'Lodewijk de Vadder' in 'Old Master Drawings', New York 1929; IV, 15
p. 46 note

Hofstede de Groot, C., Fichescollectie, RKD
baknummer 266, fichenummer 1553678
https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/550466 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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