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Hill landscape

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1644-1711

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1605-1655

Title

Hill landscape

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite or black chalk and watercolour with traces of graphite framing lines on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.9 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1004 (MISSING)

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




panoramic

Provenance

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] (£6); Witt Bequest 1952; Gallery Kekko (Toronto), 1990; Galerie Jan de Maere (Brussels), 1992; private collection, Belgium by 2015 (when published as such by de Feijter)

Exhibition History

Von Floris tot Rubens. Meestertekeningen uit een Belgische privéverzameling / De Floris à Rubens. Dessins de maÎtres d'une collection particulière Belge, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2016

La Réalité magnifiée: peinture flamande 1550-1700, La Cour d'or, Musées de Metz, 26/06/1993-26/10/1993

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

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

Literature

Von Floris tot Rubens. Meestertekeningen uit een Belgische privéverzameling / De Floris à Rubens. Dessins de maÎtres d'une collection particulière Belge, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2018
cat. no. 86
as by Boudewyns

de Feijter, I., Privéverzamelaars. Passie en overdracht, Brussels 2015
Illus. p. 23

de Lannoy, Gaëlle, [Boudewijns and his son]', unpublished Master's thesis, 1994
I, pp. 63-4, cat. 46
need to check Brussels and Maastricht 2018 exh. cat. biblio to find title of this thesis and university name ...More

La Réalité magnifiée: peinture flamande 1550-1700, La Cour d'or, Musées de Metz, 1993
cat. no. 41

Geeroms, Luc, ‘Lodewik de Vadder (1605-1655)’, Master’s diss., Ghent University, 1985
p. 260, A-18
Illus. 198
rejected as by de Vadder

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 134

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 645
as by de Vadder

Cannart d’Hamale, Emmanuel de with Dominique Bovet, Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655). Paintings, drawings, prints & tapestries, https://www.lodewijkdevadder.net/
CB no. 641
rejected as by de Vadder; title given as 'Distant view with castle' ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Strasburg lily (cf. Heawood 1666 - England 1654 and Heawood 1667 - Brussels 1646. Vertical chain lines c. 23/4 mm. Reproduced in 2018 exh. cat. on p. 259).

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

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, Witt number: "1004"; lower right, brown ink: “50”. Witt’s mount: “de G thinks earlier not aft 1660”.

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