Hill landscape
Maker
(artist)
1600-1699
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1644-1711
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1605-1655
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
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
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de Lannoy, Gaëlle, [Boudewijns and his son]', unpublished Master's thesis, 1994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
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”.
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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