Landscape with Venus and Adonis
Maker
(artist)
1649-1694
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
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).
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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