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Poultry market in an imaginary Venetian setting

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1540-1609

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1500-1699

Attributed to
(artist)
1550-1605

Title

Poultry market in an imaginary Venetian setting

Date of Production

c. 1620

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.4 cm
Width: 30.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.311

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

Adolf Glüenstein, Hamburg (b. 1849), L.123; Maison F.A.C. Prestel (collector's mark used until about 1908), L.2730; Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); His sale (Sotheby's London, 7-10 December 1920, lot 532; as 'Reulof de Vries'); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London, (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3.95); 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

Andrea Palladio 1508-1580: the portico and the farmyard, Hayward Gallery, London, 21/08/1975-12/10/1975

Literature

Meijer, Bert W., Il disegno Veneziano, 1580-1650. Ricostruzioni storico-artistiche, Florence 2017
p. 398, no. 8
questioned the former attr. to de Vries, according to the author "copy after a lost painting by de Vries"

Andrea Palladio 1508-1580: the portico and the farmyard, Hayward Gallery, London, 1975
cat. no. 219

Wegner, Wolfgang, 'Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Werkes von Lodewyck Toeput' in 'Arte Veneta', 1961; XV
unpag.
Illus. no. 122
offprint in file ...More

K.T. Parker, "Dirck de Vries", in: Old Master Drawings. A Quarterly Magazine for Students and Collectors, 9 (December 1934), pp. 52-53
p. 53
Doubts Vorenkamp's attribution to Dirck de Vries ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: crossbow in a circle (per Peter Bower, an unidentified Italian papermaker).

Inscription: Verso: upper left edge, brown ink: Teodoro de fries; upper centre, graphite: 1631-; upper centre, graphite: 6; lower left, graphite: R de Vries; lower left edge, graphite: No 56; lower right edge, graphite: P.P.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in blue : Adolf Glüenstein (L.123); lower right, stamped in black: Maison F.A.C. Prestel (L.2730); lower right corner, stamped in black : Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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