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Landscape with ruined arch and figure

Maker

(artist)
1764-1835

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1712-1793

Title

Landscape with ruined arch and figure

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 48.4 cm
Width: 35.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3175

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

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); purchased from him in an exchange by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Five centuries of drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, October 1953-November 1953

Eighteenth-century Venice, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 03/01/1951-18/04/1951

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: crowned coat-of-arms, with two stars in the crown and three stars in the centre, above letters "FL".

Inscription: Recto: right lower margin, graphite: “#2”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “3175”. Verso: lower centre edge, graphite: “x”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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