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Landscape with trees, a horse and rider and standard-bearer (recto)

Maker

(recto)
(artist)
1564-1635

(verso)
(artist)
1571-1618

Title

Landscape with trees, a horse and rider and standard-bearer (recto)

Date of Production

(verso) 1596

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), black and red chalk, brown wash, white and pink bodycolour (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3110

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

probably brought by Badens from Italy back to Amsterdam, 1597; perhaps inserted into an 'Album Amicorum', Amsterdam, where used by de Momper, 1598; Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753-1839); F.A. Drey (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), July 1941, for £5; 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

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 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Pieter Bruegel der Altere als Zeichner, Herkunft und Nachfolge, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 19/09/1975-16/11/1975

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens / De Van Eyck à Rubens: les maitres flamands du dessin, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 17/12/1948-01/02/1949; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 08/02/1949-16/03/1949; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 17/03/1949-03/05/1949

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

Literature

Jacoby, Joachim, Städels Erbe: Meisterzeichnungen aus der Sammlung des Stifters, Stadel Museum 2020
p. 277n6

Hochmann, Michel, 'Hans Rottenhammer and Pietro Mera: two northern artists in Rome and Venice' in 'Burlington Magazine', September 2003
p. 643 (verso)
fig. 29 on p. 642 (verso)
as 'Venus and Adonis'

Wurfbain, Maarten, 'Gerbrant Adriaensz. Bredero en de schilderkunst' in 'Amstelodamum', 2001 - 16-23; 88
p. 19 (recto and verso)
fig. 1 on p. 16 (verso) ...More

Fiamminghi à Roma 1508-1608: Artistes des Pays-Bas et de la Principauté de Liège à Rome à la Renaissance, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1995
no. 7
as 'Venus and Adonis'

Gerszi, Terez, 'Joos de Momper als Zeichner' in 'Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen', Teil I, 1993 , pp. 175-190
p. 180 (recto)
fig. 7 on p. 181 (recto)

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 52
pp. 112, 186
ill. p. 113 (recto), p. 186 (verso)

Ertz, Klaus, Josse de Momper der Jüngere (1564-1635). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren 1986
p. 94
fig. 42 (recto only)

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 14
ill. on p. 53

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 31
ill. on p. 39

Renaissance et Maniérisme dans les Écoles du Nord, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris and Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1985-1986
p. 196, under no. 99

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 26

Pieter Bruegel der Altere als Zeichner, Herkunft und Nachfolge, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1975
cat. no. 202
pl. 234

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 43

Faggin, Giorgio, ‘Frans Badens (Il Carracci di Amsterdam)’, Arte Veneta, XXIII, 1969, pp. 131-44
pp. 132, 138, 140 (verso)
fig. 150 on p. 135 (verso only)

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 128 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto: upper right edge: lower half of a pilgrim inscribed in a circle.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower right of centre, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “Jooes de momper, / 1598”; lower right corner, brown ink: “213H”. Verso: lower left corner, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “franciscu. baedens / a roma 1596; lower right edge, brown ink: “francius”. Mount (removed, recorded in file): graphite: “Lord St Helens & Woodburn.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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