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View of Rome with the Tiber (recto)
Standing figure of a man (verso)

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
born 1650

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1604-1682

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1615-1675

Title

View of Rome with the Tiber (recto)
Standing figure of a man (verso)

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), brown wash (verso), on blue laid paper, in a historic border support (paper is variegated, made up of fibres dyed blue with indigotin)

Dimensions

Height: 10.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2866

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

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Label Text

The anonymous artist of this sheet takes his name from the blue paper he used in over 60 landscape drawings, depicting both imaginary and real settings in Rome and the surrounding areas. The small size of these sheets suggests they were once part of a sketchbook. The colour of the paper doubles both as the blue of the river Tiber and the sky, evoking a city suffused in warm sunlight.

Provenance

Thomas de Grey, Lord Lucas, Wrest Park (1781-1859); Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 and 13 - 14 July 1936, lot 425D; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawn to Blue: Artists' use of Blue Paper, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/10/2024-26/01/2025

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962 ...More

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less

Literature

Roethlisberger, Marcel, 'Drawings around Claude, Part One: A Group of Sixty Grimaldesque Drawings' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 1965; 3, 4
no. 44
pl. 22
as by unknown artist

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 73

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Border support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: "2866"; lower centre, brown ink: "G: Poussin".

Collector's mark: Border support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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