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Landscape with Venus and Adonis

Maker

(artist)
1649-1694

Title

Landscape with Venus and Adonis

Date of Production

1671

Medium

pen and brown ink, traces of white bodycolour, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 19.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2052

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

Cremer; William Pitcairn Knowles, Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (1820-1894), L.2643; Jacques Arnal; J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "x P v Somer in et fecit 1671". Verso: lower left, graphite: "b"; lower left corner, graphite: "2"; lower right corner, graphite, obscured by handling edges: "-23 [?]".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right edge, stamped in purple ink: William Pitcairn Knowles (L.2643).

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