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Landscape with ruins and figures

Maker

(artist)
1594-1667

Title

Landscape with ruins and figures

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping (an offset?) on blue laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 26.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1198

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

William Bateson, London (1861-1926), L.2604a; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 April 1939, lot 34; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£1.25); 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, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962 ...More

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

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 56
Illus. p. 137

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “269”. Verso (now hidden under Japanese tissue, reliant on notes in file): lower right, graphite, circled, removed during conservation: “D1506” [?]; graphite, Witt’s hand: “1198”; red chalk: “B.55/C.Poelen[…]”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: William Bateson (L.2604a).

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