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Hill landscape

Maker

(artist)
1601-1678

Title

Hill landscape

Date of Production

1619

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 14.1 cm
Width: 18 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1647

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

Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 July 1923, lot 57; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£11); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978 ...More

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Das flämische Landschaftsbild des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Gottschewski und Schäffer, Berlin, 06/11/1927-30/11/1927; Bochum, 1927-28 ...Less

Literature

Van Camp, An, 'Jan Brueghel the Younger and the Nuremberg drawings', Delineavit et Sculpsit, 36, October 2013, pp. 22-43
pp. 27-29
fig. 2, p. 27

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 6
Illus. on p. 37

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 31 ...More

Gerszi, T., 'Landschaftszeichnungen aus der Nachfolge Pieter Bruegels' in 'Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen', 1965; VII
p. 119

Winner, Matthias, 'Zeichnungen des Alteren Jan Breughel' in 'Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen', 1961; III, 2
p. 225
pl. 35

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 55

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 83

Honig, Elizabeth Alice et al., Jan Brueghel: complete catalogue, https://www.janbrueghel.net/search/site/courtauld [accessed 8 March 2021]

Hans Verbeek, Travels through Town and Country: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings 1550-1830 (2000)
pp. 42-43
ftn. 1 under no. 14 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right (over drawing), stamped in black ink: Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, (L.2602d). Verso: left lower edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, signed and dated: “Johan • breugel • i6i9 •”. Verso: left lower edge, graphite: “PTN”.

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