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Landscape with cattle and peasants in foreground, small cottage to left, church and village in middle distance

Maker

(artist)
1741-1799

Title

Landscape with cattle and peasants in foreground, small cottage to left, church and village in middle distance

Date of Production

1791

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 36 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.21

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

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Provenance

Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7-10 December 1920, lot 431; E. Parsons & Sons (London), cat. 38, 1921, lot 106; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£6.3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Schwartz, Leslie A., 'The "Thoughts" ("Gedagten") of Jacob Cats (1741-1799). Inscriptions on the numbered drawings of a prolific eighteenth-century draftsman. An addition to the list of Jane Shoaf Turner (1990)' in 'Delineavit et Sculpsit', December 2007 - pp. 57-77; 31
p. 73

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: tips of letters, but unable to read.

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, black ink, signed and dated by the artist: "600 / J Cats inv 1791"; lower left edge, graphite: "474".

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

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