Landscape with the rest on the flight into Egypt
Maker
(artist)
1557-1602
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1591-1666
1557-1602
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1591-1666
Title
Landscape with the rest on the flight into Egypt
Date of Production
1500 - 1599
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 27.2 cm
Width: 27.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1453
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
Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855 -1935); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 11 April 1935, lot 67; purchased there by Colnaghi (London), for £5; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 16 September 1935, (£8, as by Guercino); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
The Primacy of Drawing, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 21/09/1991-03/11/1991; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 09/11/1991-05/01/1992; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 11/01/1992-23/02/1992
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970 ...More
Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...Less
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970 ...More
Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...Less
Literature
Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 25
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 74
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 26
cat. no. 25
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 74
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 26
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite, faded/erased and now illegible.
Collector's mark: Verso: stamped twice at lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, brown ink: 20/8L/1:10/.
Watermark: Recto: upper right, angel praying in profile; above is something circular (unlike the cross, twig and flowers present in similar marks in Briquet and Piccard). Approx 7 cm high and 4.7 wide.
Collector's mark: Verso: stamped twice at lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, brown ink: 20/8L/1:10/.
Watermark: Recto: upper right, angel praying in profile; above is something circular (unlike the cross, twig and flowers present in similar marks in Briquet and Piccard). Approx 7 cm high and 4.7 wide.
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