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Old watermill

Maker

(artist)
1643-1712

Title

Old watermill

Date of Production

1674

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 20.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2044

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; Meier Elte (The Hague); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; 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

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Dutch drawings XVIth to XVIIIth century lent by Sir Robert and Lady Witt, Campbell Dodgson, Julian G. Lousada and J.C. Witt., Oxford Arts Club, 05/01/1929-02/02/1929

Literature

Byam Shaw, J., 'Valentine Klotz' in 'Old Master Drawings', December 1928 - pp. 53-55
p. 54

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: lower tips of foolscap (four points visible) above a small triangle, above three stacked circles. Support (historic), Verso: centre, two lines of text (illegible due to layered sheets).

Inscription: Recto: left lower edge, brown ink, dated by the artist: "1674: 7:m:/30: d:"; lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist: "J. De Gravé : fe'cit :". Support (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite: "Buff."; lower right, graphite, circled: "255"; lower right edge, graphite, upside down, underlined, faded and hard to read: "XET" [?]; lower right corner, graphite: "125.". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), graphite: “Exhibited Oxford Arts Club 1929 / " V&A 1943 / Josua de Grave / Dutch 1660 [the date crossed out] / 2044 //”.

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

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