Landscape with figures
Maker
(Artists)
1700-1799
1700-1799
Title
Landscape with figures
Date of Production
(?) 1798
Medium
black chalk, pen and grey-brown ink, grey wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 27.7 cm
Width: 27.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1523
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
perhaps in a Spanish collection around 1798 (see inscription on verso); A. Berthel, Surrey; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.15); Witt Bequest 1952
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: top of a double circle containing a fleur-de-lis, surmounted by the letter “V”.
Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, graphite, former attribution: “Gasper Poussin”. Verso: upper left corner, graphite, underlined: “43”; upper centre edge, brown ink, upside down: “veduta nel entrare de vigniano tre postte[?] lantano da Roma”; upper left, graphite, circled: “do”; centre, graphite: “B / 23 //”; lower centre, brown ink: “Naudet CW au Louvre – 1798 / Guaparos pousilla //”; right of centre, graphite: “£3.3”; lower right, graphite: “Gasper Poussin”; lower left corner, brown ink: “6H”. Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in conservation binder): “van Duzer suggests Blanchard” and “C16”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, graphite, former attribution: “Gasper Poussin”. Verso: upper left corner, graphite, underlined: “43”; upper centre edge, brown ink, upside down: “veduta nel entrare de vigniano tre postte[?] lantano da Roma”; upper left, graphite, circled: “do”; centre, graphite: “B / 23 //”; lower centre, brown ink: “Naudet CW au Louvre – 1798 / Guaparos pousilla //”; right of centre, graphite: “£3.3”; lower right, graphite: “Gasper Poussin”; lower left corner, brown ink: “6H”. Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in conservation binder): “van Duzer suggests Blanchard” and “C16”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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