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Landscape with cottage and trees (recto)
Sketch of a monkey (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Landscape with cottage and trees (recto)
Sketch of a monkey (verso)

Date of Production

1625 - 1690

Medium

black and white chalk with brown ink framing lines (recto), graphite (verso), on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.1 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2089

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1925, lot 101 ('Five landscape studies' including D.1952.RW.2091, the others originally numbered 2090 and 2093 disposed of by Witt before bequeathing to The Courtauld); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

N.B. the file and Witt card said the Sotheby's sale was the collection of Lieutenant-Colonel E.L. Mears, but this was merely the first name listed in the catalogue; lot 101 came under the heading 'various owners'

Exhibition History

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, 1972 (Apr.-May)

Cinq siecles d'art, Brussels, 1935

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927

Literature

Bruegel: een dynastie van schilders, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 18 September - 18 November 1980
p. 293
ill.
within an essay by Margret Klinge, 'David Teniers II. De Tekeningen', pp. 292-95

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, April - May 1972
cat. no. 11
ill.

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131 ...More

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 641 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, first two letters in monogram, signed by the artist: "DTF". Verso: lower left corner, brown ink: "L.L.".

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