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Landscape with an Italian village

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1636-1699

Title

Landscape with an Italian village

Date of Production

1650 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on coarse buff paper, with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 33.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2019

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



Solitude

Provenance

Jacques Arnal; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 February 1925, lot 63; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): page from an accounting book, two columns of text and numbers in brown ink: excerpt reads "Item 13 last kost 932 gul / 15 stuvrs So sal £1 last [?] / 71 gul 15 stuvrs" and is then followed by the proper exercise/calculation ["gul" comes from "gulden" (guilders), and "stuvrs" from "stuvers" (stiver/penny/farthing), £ is evidently "pond" or "pound"]; lower centre edge, brown ink: “Coning (or 'Coniug') fc Roma”.

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

Label: Left: 'Exhibited. Berlin + Bochum 1927-8. Right: David de Koninck or Coninck/(Rammelaer)/Flemish 1636-1699/Coll. Arnal// Signed on back 'Coning. Roma

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