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Northern port in winter (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1614-1652

Title

Northern port in winter (recto)

Date of Production

c. 1641-1644

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto and verso) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2436

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

possibly Gustav Nebehay, Vienna (1881-1935) [Witt's index card records the seller's name simply as 'Neb.']; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£15); 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

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

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 17
ill. on p. 59

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 71

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite, underlined: "453" [Northern Landscape cat. says "483" but looks more like a '5'].

Collector's mark: none.

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