Open IIIF manifest What is IIIF IIIF viewers

Mountain torrent with watermill

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Date of Production

1659 - 1669

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 29.9 cm
Width: 27.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2129

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

probably François Boucher (1703-1770); his estate sale, Paris, 18 February 1771, probably part of lot 272 (Antoine Waterloo. Trois autres [paysages] en travers) or part of lot 274 (Antoine Waterloo. Seize études d’arbres); both lots purchased by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.2097, for 25 and 31 livres respectively; his sale, Basan (Paris), 17 November 1775, part of lot 1064; purchased there by Pierre François Basan (1723-1797) for 28 livres; H.J. Holgen (Amsterdam); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; 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

Literature

Rosenberg, Pierre et Choueiry, Marie-Liesse, Les dessins de la collection Mariette. Ecoles flamande, hollandaise et allemande, 2 vols., Paris 2022
vol. I, no. N 575 on p. 392
vol. I, ill. on p. 392

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 68
ill. on p. 161

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, graphite: "fr,ho"; lower right corner, graphite: "A. Waterloo".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.2097). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.

____________________________

Buy a print from our collection