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Imaginary coastal scene with fishing vessels

Maker

(artist)
1561-1635

Title

Imaginary coastal scene with fishing vessels

Date of Production

1575 - 1633

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown, yellow and blue wash, blue bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partly trimmed away, laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1995

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

Jacques Arnal; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 February 1925; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (105 shillings); 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

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 10
ill. on p. 45

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 35

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 127

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: crowned lion rampant (not found in Bernstein's Memory of Paper, nor in Heawood).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso (hidden under tissue): centre, graphite or ink?: "17".

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