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Wooded landscape with the Capuchin monastery at Tervuren

Maker

(artist)
1595-1672

Title

Wooded landscape with the Capuchin monastery at Tervuren

Date of Production

1640

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, with black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.4 cm
Width: 34.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2175

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






Label Text

The monastery depicted here once stood at the edge of the Forêt de Soigne near Brussels. The buildings in the middle ground, already diminutive, are dwarfed by ranks of ash trees whose slender trunks and lacelike foliage form a screen that extends across the sheet. Van Uden observed the scene from a low viewpoint, allowing both a high degree of detail in the foreground and a sense of the trees’ soaring height.

Provenance

Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426; Frank Garrett; his estate sale, Puttick & Simpson (London), 2 June 1926, lot 1; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £6.3; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Regarding Trees, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2016-25/09/2016

Imagining Islands, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-21/07/2013

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 ...More

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

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

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

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

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

Literature

Cavalli-Björkman, Görel, et al., Dutch and Flemish paintings. III Flemish paintings, c. 1600-c. 1800, Stockholm, 2010
pp. 408-10 under no. 218, note 1

Boëlens van Waesberghe, Benoît, European master drawings unveiled: Van der Goes, Michelangelo, Van Goyen, Fragonard and other masters from Belgian collections, exh. cat., Amsterdam, 2002
pp. 78-79 under no. 31, note 1

Logan, Anne-Marie, Flemish drawings in the age of Rubens: selected drawings from American collections, Wellesley, Mass, Seatle and London 1993
p. 221 under no. 72 ...More

Stampfle, Felice, Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1991
p. 161, under no. 336
fig. 151

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 73
pp. 154, 195
ill. on p. 155

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 23
ill. on p. 71

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 50

Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth Century. From the Collection of Frits Lugt Institut Néerlandais Paris, Carlos van Hasselt (ed.), Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Institut Néerlandais, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
p. 145, notes 4 and 7 under no. 111

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

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. 35

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 639 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: large crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis, above "4 / WR". Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), centre: “C & IHONIG”. Laid line frequency: 9 per cm, variable Chain line widths: 21 mm apart, variable

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "1640 _L.V.V.". Verso: left centre edge, brown ink: "utdens". Support (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: centre, graphite: “No. 1458”; lower right, graphite, name and Witt number: “Udeno 2175”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).

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