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Rocky landscape with figures

Maker

(artist)
1623-1687

Title

Rocky landscape with figures

Date of Production

1640 - 1687

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 6.7 cm
Width: 11.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1203

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





Notes

According to Gustot's monograph, the inscription is a signature; he gave the title as 'Italianate landscape'.

Provenance

Robinson, Fisher & Harding (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 1 March 1923 (£1 10s, including another Neyts landscape that was not included in the Witt Bequest); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Gustot, Pierre, Gillis Neyts: un paysagiste brabançon en vallée mosane au XVIIe siècle, Namur, 2008
no. D229
Illus. p. 224

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 72

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 128

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist: "g•neyts•f".

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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