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Landscape with river and village

Maker

Monogrammist C.A.R. (artist)
active 1600 (active)

After
(artist)
1550-1583

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1554-1626

Title

Date of Production

1600

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with ruled double brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 36.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1200

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), before November 1927 [when he lent it to Berlin exhibition], for £5, as Dutch or Flemish School; Witt Bequest 1952; noted missing December 2001; Wolfhart F. Bürgi, Bern (1901-1989), L.3400 (incompletely stamped at lower left and twice on verso); Alain Lebet; from whom acquired by Ian Woodner, 1983; gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1983 (inv. 1983.122); returned to The Courtauld July 2023

Exhibition History

Das flämische Landschaftsbild des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Gottschewski und Schäffer, Berlin, 06/11/1927-30/11/1927; Bochum, 1927-28

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, pen and brown ink: "2i"; lower left, pen and brown ink, signed with initials and dated: "C.A.R. 1600" (the "C.A.R." was rubbed out but is visible in older photographs and under UV).

Collector's mark: Stamped in red, thrice, once incompletely at lower left, twice on verso: Wolfhart F. Bürgi (L.3400).

Watermark: none.

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