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Landscape with the Rest on the Flight

Maker

School of
(artist)
1555-1619

Attributed to
(artist)
1576-1622

Title

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 16.7 cm
Width: 25.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1462

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

Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (at lower right); his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741, either lot 510 (as one of 12 landscapes by the Carraccis), lot 511 (as one of 10 landscapes by the Carraccis) or lot 512 (one of 9 landscapes by the Carraccis); purchased there by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.1852 (30 livres 1 sol for lot 510, 31 livres 5 sols for lot 511, 36 livres 10 sols for lot 512); his estate sale, Basan (Paris), 11 January 1776, probably part of lot 335 (one of 7 landscapes by Ludovico Carracci); purchased there by François Renaud (1750?-1825?) for 56 livres; Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford, London and Packington Hall (1786-1859), L.58; Craddock & Barnard (Tunbridge Well and London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Carracci - Drawings and Paintings, Newcastle & England, 1961

Literature

Rosenberg, Paul, Les dessins de la Collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. 4 vols, Paris 2019
vol. I, no. I 551 on p. 367
ill. on p. 367

Py, Bernadette, Les dessins italiens de Pierre Crozat (1665-1740). L'oeil de Mariette, http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2015/Catalogue_Crozat
p. 307 and note 8

Bohn, Babette, The drawings of Ludovico Carracci, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1982
p. 21 ...More

The Carracci: drawings and paintings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1961
no. 7
pl. V
attributed to Ludovico Carracci

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 67 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "26" [Crozat number (L.3612)]; Mount (removed): Recto: upper left, graphite: "(3) 6 1/2 in. in length"; lower left, ink: "L.Carracci"; lower centre, ink: "25"; lower right, graphite (partly erased): "[..] Athlone / ? Viola"

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped: [collector's mark of Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.1852)]; lower right corner, written in brown: Pierre Crozat [(L.3612)] Mount (removed): lower left, stamped: [collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)]; lower right, stamped: "A" [collector's mark of Earl of Aylesford (L.58)]

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