Landscape with houses by a pond
Maker
(artist)
1605-1655
1605-1655
Title
Landscape with houses by a pond
Date of Production
1600 - 1699
Medium
black, red and white chalk on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 31 cm
Width: 31 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2315
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
Hamal [recorded in 1842 cat. as 'Col. Hamal']; Marie-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave (1762-1846); his sale at Alliance des Arts, Paris, 1-6 December 1842, L.61, lot 360 [cats. on Brill not annotated with buyer's name]; Frederick Richard Meatyard, London (1881-1966); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London, (1872-1952), 1927; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
The Northern Landscape. Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Drawing Center, New York; Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1986
n. 5 on p. 72
erroneously listed as 2305 rather than 2315
Geeroms, Luc, ‘Lodewik de Vadder (1605-1655)’, Master’s diss., Ghent University, 1985
p. 225, G-3
ill. 150
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132 ...More
Cannart d’Hamale, Emmanuel de with Dominique Bovet, Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655). Paintings, drawings, prints & tapestries, https://www.lodewijkdevadder.net/
CB no. 580
as de Vadder
Hofstede de Groot, C., Fichescollectie, RKD
baknummer 266, fichenummer 1553675
https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/550463 ...Less
n. 5 on p. 72
erroneously listed as 2305 rather than 2315
Geeroms, Luc, ‘Lodewik de Vadder (1605-1655)’, Master’s diss., Ghent University, 1985
p. 225, G-3
ill. 150
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132 ...More
Cannart d’Hamale, Emmanuel de with Dominique Bovet, Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655). Paintings, drawings, prints & tapestries, https://www.lodewijkdevadder.net/
CB no. 580
as de Vadder
Hofstede de Groot, C., Fichescollectie, RKD
baknummer 266, fichenummer 1553675
https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/550463 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: centre: Arms of Lorraine - entwined "C"s and cross of Lorraine under a crown (identified by Peter Bower, no further information given).
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, probably signed by the artist (see notes): "L.D.V.". Verso: lower right, graphite, second line erased and hard to read: "Lucas de Valdès / Seville 1661 - 1724"; lower right edge, graphite, Witt number: "Vadder 2315".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in blue ink: Alliance des Arts (L.61).
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, probably signed by the artist (see notes): "L.D.V.". Verso: lower right, graphite, second line erased and hard to read: "Lucas de Valdès / Seville 1661 - 1724"; lower right edge, graphite, Witt number: "Vadder 2315".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in blue ink: Alliance des Arts (L.61).
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