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Interior of a wood with a small lake

Maker

After

1568-1625

Formerly attributed to a follower of
(artist)
1544-1607

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1554-1626

Title

Date of Production

circa 1600

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey and blue wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 34.5 cm
Width: 47 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3123

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

Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave, Paris (1762-1846); his sale, Alliance des Arts (Paris), L.61, 1 - 7 December 1842 (as Hobbema, ‘Coin de Forêt’); Jean-Baptiste Delbecq, Ghent (1771-1840); his estate sale, Alliance des Arts (Paris), L.61, 18 (and following days) February 1845; Baron Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette, Boulogne-sur-Seine and Paris (1864-1934), L.2200a; his sale; Hollstein & Puppel (Berlin), 4 - 6 May 1931, lot 939; W.H. Jervis Legg, London (?); F.A. Drey (London); given from there to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), Christmas 1941; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

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

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

Literature

Ruby, Louisa Wood, An early wooded landscape by Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Burlington Magazine 2012
pp. 476-77, n.4

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 43

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 24 ...More

Wegner, W., 'Nachlese zu Zeichnungen des Coninxloo-Umkreises' in 'Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder', The Hague 1973, pp. 353-5
p. 355
as copy after Coninxloo

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 125 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, right centre: crowned shield containing horn, above "4" above monogram "WR", with countermark left centre: small letters "IV" (no match in Churchill or Heawood).

Inscription: Verso: upper right edge, brown ink, cut off: "13c"; upper centre, graphite, faded and unclear: "29[?] 1 6 11[?] / 2"; upper right, brown ink: "page 57"; upper right, graphite: "paul Bril"; centre, graphite: "15."; lower centre, graphite: "Aus einer Versteigerung d Alliance d'Art / Vielleicht aus der / Samlung [sic] Delbecq-Gent" above a sketch of a tree?; lower left, graphite: "Gillis van Coninxloo / 1544-1607 / Antwerpen - Amsterdam."; lower right, graphite: "Wasserzeichen"; lower left, graphite: "511"; lower left, brown ink: "paul Brill"; lower right, graphite: "#8"; lower right corner, brown ink: "S / 13c".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in blue ink: Alliance des Arts (L.61).

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