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Landscape with trees and houses

Maker

(artist)
1607-1674

Title

Landscape with trees and houses

Date of Production

(circa) 1665

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, on laid paper, with black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 40.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2747

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

Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (1803-1882), L.1450; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 10 June 1931, lot 53; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

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

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 51
ill. on p. 127

Schneider, H. and R.E.O. Ekkart, Jan Lievens, sein Leben und seine Werke, Amsterdam and Israel 1973
pp. 238, 373, nos. Z338, Z338a

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 57 ...More

Schneider, H., Jan Lievens, sein Leben und seine Werke, Haarlem 1932
no. Z338, Z338a ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: an arrow? Unable to see clearly.

Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, brown ink: "N:130"; lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "jan lievens"? Abraded, but looks more like "van levdem". Verso: upper centre edge, remnant of some newspaper backing with text in either Dutch or German; lower centre, graphite, priced: "10 Flr"; lower left edge, graphite, erased: "[...] / 6:[...] //"; lower centre edge, graphite: "34"; lower right corner, brown ink: "4."; lower right corner, graphite: "16".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Jacob de Vos Jbzn (L.1450).

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