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Imaginary landscape, with castle in hollowed rock, foot bridge and approach

Maker

(artist)
1564-1635

Formerly attributed to
Joos de Momper, the elder (artist)
1516-1559

Title

Date of Production

1530 - 1559

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 29.1 cm
Width: 39.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3147

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

Richard Johnson, Manchester and Chislehurst (active c. 1850-1875, d.c. 1877), L.2216; W. Thompson; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 2 November 1948; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 27 April 1949 (£45); 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

Literature

Gerszi, Teréz , ‘Joos de Momper als Zeichner. Teil II’, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 1994, pp. 165-88
p. 177
fig. 18

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: left centre: small fleur-de-lis (per Peter Bower, simple marks of this type of fleur-de-lis were very common from the early 16th century onwards). Verso (backing sheet): left centre: shield with crossed 'X's and letters "D C B" (close to Heawood 3268 - England circa 1769 - but ours is a cm wider. Per Peter Bower, the D&C Blauw partnership, one of the biggest producers in Holland, began in 1750 and lasted into the 1820s).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): centre, graphite: "From Gen e[superscript] Momper's Colln. / Johnson Collection //"; lower left corner, brown ink: "124 / P j //"; lower right, graphite: "J. Mompert b 1580".

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): stamp glued to upper left corner, printed in black ink: Richard Johnson (L.2216); lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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