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Landscape with three figures resting at the foot of a tree

Maker

(artist)
1734-1781

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1727-1808

Title

Landscape with three figures resting at the foot of a tree

Date of Production

1769

Medium

black chalk, grey wash on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 34.9 cm
Width: 29.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3154

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

unidentified collector’s mark, L.172; Robinson & Foster (London), 22 October 1942; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 27 October 1942 (£14, as by Pillement); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Boucher - Landscapes, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 22/01/2005-27/03/2005

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950

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

Literature

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 440

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed with the artist’s monogram and dated: “J.LP. 1769”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, unclear: something cut off and/or crossed out, and “S Danjeu [?]” [reading by J. Tonkovich, see notes].

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower right edge, blindstamped: unidentified collector’s mark (L.172).

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