Italianate landscape
Maker
Frans Boudewyns (artist)
1720-1766
1720-1766
Title
Italianate landscape
Date of Production
(or 1713?) 1712
Medium
graphite, red chalk with stumping on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 16.9 cm
Width: 28.2 cm
Width: 28.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1043
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 Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Turner, Jane Shoaf and Christopher White, Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2014
p. 369
Under no. 443
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123
p. 369
Under no. 443
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123
Inscriptions
Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (no match in Heawood or Churchill).
Mount (removed, in box from P&D): lower centre edge, fragment of top of a coat of arms.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, red chalk, difficult to read: “1712 [or 1713?] / L. Bau [does not look like “A”] in et […]”. Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto: lower centre, red ink: “L. Bau”; lower right, graphite: arrow pointing up “? 1710 / Ba['o' written above the 'a']dewyns”. Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Verso: right centre edge, brown ink “N. 11”; lower right, graphite: “CD.” [not found in Lugt]
Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, red chalk, difficult to read: “1712 [or 1713?] / L. Bau [does not look like “A”] in et […]”. Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto: lower centre, red ink: “L. Bau”; lower right, graphite: arrow pointing up “? 1710 / Ba['o' written above the 'a']dewyns”. Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Verso: right centre edge, brown ink “N. 11”; lower right, graphite: “CD.” [not found in Lugt]
Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in box from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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