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Landscape with cattle

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Date of Production

1625 - 1690

Medium

black, red and white chalk on blue laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 30.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2330

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

Richard Houlditch junior, London (d. 1736), L.2214 (lower right) [in his posthumous sale 12-14 February 1760, Langford, London, no drawings listed by Gainsborough, 2nd night, lot 67 lists 'Three by Rembrandt, Teniers and Berghem', bought by Wilson]; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 (lower right); Thomas Case; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 8 February 1928, lot 21 (as by Gainsborough); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, for £10.5; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, 1972 (Apr.-May)

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938

Literature

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, April - May 1972
cat. no. 7
ill.
as Teniers

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131
as by Teniers

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
cat. no. 571
as Teniers

Inscriptions

Watermark: none in the drawing. Mount (historic), Verso (visible only in raking light): right centre: large fleur-de-lis (Peter Bower dates the paper to mid-18th century).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364); Richard Houlditch (L.2214). Mount (historic), Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite, faded: "7312"; upper right, graphite: "Gainsboro".

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