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Italianate landscape

Maker

Frans Boudewyns (artist)
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

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

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).

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