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Landscape with ducks and river

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1584-1635

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1540-1620

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1587-1658

Title

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 16.9 cm
Width: 27.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2588

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

Arthur E. Anderson, Chessington (1870-1938); purchased from his executors by Colnaghi (London), 17 January 1939; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), also 17 January 1939 (£6, as by Flemish School); 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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 130

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: crowned eagle bearing Basel crozier with spread wings above pendant D above three circles (variant in Tschudin 1958, no. 265 - Loosduinen, 1599. The ‘D’ is for the Düring papermaking family, which owned mills in and around Basel).

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "6"; lower left, graphite, Witt number and former attribution: "2588 / Nieúland. //".

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