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Imaginary landscape with goats and goatsherd

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
Paolo Fiammingo (artist)
1540-1596

Title

Imaginary landscape with goats and goatsherd

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on card with lower margin visible

Dimensions

Height: 42.5 cm
Width: 57 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1476

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

Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 66 (as Bolognese, School of Carracci); purchased there by F.B. Neumayer (London); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.15); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, Rondom Rembrandt en Titiaan. Artistieke relaties tussen Amsterdam en Venetië in prent en tekening, 1991
p. 99 under no. 43
after a drawing by an anonymous Dutch-Flemish artist from the end of the XVIth century in the Louvre

Disegni veneti di collezioni olandesi, Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Florence, Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell'arte, 1985
pp. 64-65

Meijer, Bert W., 'Paolo Fiammino tra indigeni e "forestieri" a Venezia' in 'Prospettiva', January 1983 - pp. 20-32; 32
p. 24
fig. 11 on p. 24
as Venetian artist (Fiammingo? copy after?) ...More

Mason Rinaldi, Stefania, 'Paolo Fiammingo' in 'Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte', 1978 - pp. 45-80; 11
p. 73, no. 49
fig. 73

Franz, H.G., Niederlandische Lanschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz 1969
fig. 144
as Flemish-Italian Master

Dutry, Danielle, Étude sur l’oeuvre de Peintres Flamands qui firent étape chez le Tintoret. Monographie le Paul Franck, Institut Supérieur d’archeologie et d’histoire de l’art, Brussels 1966-67
no. 2
under 'Dessins dont l'attribution est incertaine'

Mason Rinaldi, Stefania, 'Appunti per Paolo Fiammingo' in 'Arte Veneta', 1965 - pp. 95-107; 19
p. 107, note 15
fig. 127
as Fiammingo

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, 'Pauwels Franck, alias Paolo Fiammingo, als tekenaar' in 'Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum', 1962 - pp. 68-75; 10
pp. 68-69, note 22
as Fiammingo

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133

Raczynski, Joseph Alexander, Die flämische Landschaft vor Rubens: Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der flämischen Landschaftsmalerei in der zeit von Brueghel bis zu Rubens, Frankfurt am Main 1937
pp. 44-45
pl. 17
as Fiammingo ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, left centre: grapes contained in a circle, unable to see clearly enough to identify due to backing card. Verso (backing card), left centre: circle with double border containing a fleur-de-lis (5 cm diameter, can't see clearly enough for further identification).

Inscription: Recto, on lower margin of card support: lower right edge, brown ink: "Titiano van.". Verso (card support): left centre, graphite: "RW."; lower left, graphite: "3041 / 397"; lower edge, brown ink: "Titiano Vecelli. Grosse Gebirgslandschaft mit Wasserfällen, rechts auf der Höhe grosse Bäume, Ziegen u Hirten, links Gebäude u. in der Ferne das Meer u. die untergehende Sonne. P.gr. r. qu. fol. Mit den Feder höchst geistreich umrissen u. von ausserordentlichen Lebendigkeit."; lower right, graphite: "1516"; lower right, graphite, crossed through: "24443".

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

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