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Landscape with figures

Maker

(Artists)
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

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).

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