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Landscape with the rest on the flight into Egypt

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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.

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