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Mountainous landscape with river and waterfall

Maker

Style of
(artist)
1560-1631

Title

Mountainous landscape with river and waterfall

Date of Production

(after) 1780

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 38.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2128

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

L.X. Lannoy; his sale, R.W.P. de Vries (Amsterdam), 19 - 28 May 1925, lot 769, as T. Verhaecht; H.J. Holgen (Amsterdam); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, before November 1927 [when he lent it to Berlin exhibition] (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens / De Van Eyck à Rubens: les maitres flamands du dessin, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 17/12/1948-01/02/1949; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 08/02/1949-16/03/1949; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 17/03/1949-03/05/1949 ...More

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Das flämische Landschaftsbild des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Gottschewski und Schäffer, Berlin, 06/11/1927-30/11/1927; Bochum, 1927-28

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

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 26
ill. on p. 77

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 40

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132 ...More

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 557
erroneously listed as still in Lannoy's collection ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "J Kool", belonging to Jan Kool, north of Amsterdam, from 1780s at the earliest (see note by Peter Bower).

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

Inscription: Verso: upper right edge, graphite: "Joos Mompers. Mompers / N2. [or "112"] / Mompers //"; left of centre, graphite: "Aw.-"; lower right edge, graphite: "Mompers"; lower right edge, mostly erased: "J.[...] 1726".

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