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Wood landscape

Maker

(artist)
1544-1607

Title

Wood landscape

Date of Production

(circa) 1598 - 1600

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, squared in black chalk

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 25.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2740

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 square format of this drawing plunges the viewer into the understory of a wood with its thick crowns of foliage and deep shadows. Coninxloo’s energetic penwork conveys a sense of movement, as if the trees were tossed by a strong breeze. In the last two decades of his career Coninxloo turned from purely imaginary landscapes to a closer study of nature that would strongly influence seventeenth-century Dutch forest painting.

Provenance

William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

The Witt Collection - Four centuries of drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004

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 ...Less

Literature

Prosperetti, Leopoldine, Trees: An Overlooked topic in Renaissance Art (in Di la dal fiume e tra gli alberi, il paesaggio del Rinascimento a Venezia, nascita e fortuna di un genere artistico, xv - xvii secolo, by Laura de Fuccia and Christophe Brouard), Ravenna / Giorgio Pozzi Editore 2012
76 - 77
ill. on p. 6

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 24
pp. 56, 177
ill. on p. 57

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 8
ill. on p. 41 ...More

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 25

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, grey ink: “C.[e superscript]”. Verso: upper left corner, brown ink: “D”; lower right edge, graphite: “4/6”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left (within the drawing), brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617).

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