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Wooded landscape with two trees, a man and a house

Maker

(artist)
1620-1673

Title

Wooded landscape with two trees, a man and a house

Date of Production

(circa) 1660

Medium

graphite, grey wash, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 40 cm
Width: 29.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.212

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

William Mayor, London (1826-1874), L.2799, by at least 1871; Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 499; F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.55); 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

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Exhibition of paintings: seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 29/02/1928-26/05/1928; City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 01/06/1928-01/09/1928

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 57
Illus. p. 139

Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8 December 1977 - 19 February 1978; Institut néerlandais, Paris, 16 March - 30 April 1978, 1977
under no. 82

Exhibition of paintings : seventeenth century dutch and flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 1928, 1928
cat. no. 41 ...More

Mayor, William, A brief Chronological Description of a collection of Original Drawings and Sketches by the most celebrated Masters, London 1871
no. 753 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily (similar to, though larger than, Heawood 1840-42 – Amsterdam around 1769 and St Petersburg? 1774).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, signed by the artist over an erased inscription: A: Pynacker ft:.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left edge, stamped in black ink: William Mayor (L.2799). Verso: left lower edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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