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Landscape with ruins, cattle and figures

Maker

(artist)
1631-1677

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink, white chalk, graphite on brown laid paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 14.6 cm
Width: 19.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3019

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

property from a 'princely and noble' collection, Hollstein & Puppel (Berlin), 27 - 28 February 1933, lot 588 (repr.); Hollstein & Puppel (Berlin), 29 October 1935; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 26 February 1936 (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school. Online research catalogue. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/rembrandt_drawings/drawings_by_rembrandt.aspx, 2010
under Van Borssom nos 4, 19

Sumowski, Werner, trans. by Walter L. Strauss, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 10 vols., New York 1979-1992
no. 311
ill. p. 667

Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, Sammlung aus altem Fürsten- und Adelsbesitz und andere Beiträge : Kupferstiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Farbstiche des XVI. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts, ...27-28 February 1933, 1933
no. 588
pl. IX

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: bottom of a shield containing a fleur-de-lis, above "4" above monogram "WR".

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist: "AB.f.". Verso: lower left, graphite, underlined: "No 16/gpa"; lower right, black chalk: "F".

Collector's mark: none.

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