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Landscape with tower

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1520-1575

Follower of
(artist)
1500-1564

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1555

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 40.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3273

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

Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740); his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741, lot 634 (as 1 of 8 by Muziano); purchased there by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.2097 (24 livres for the lot); his estate sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 – 30 January 1776, lot 612 (as 1 of 4 landscapes by Porta Salviati); purchased there by Nicolas Desmarets (1725-1815) (19.19 livresfor the lot); Dr Barry Delany, Kilkenny (1815-1888); R. Edwyn Lyne; Singer (?); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d., for 100 shillings; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Basan, Pierre François, Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de feu mr. Mariette, Paris 1775
p. 95 under no. 612 (?)

Nickel, Tobias Benjamin, Die Landschaftszeichnungen von Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564), PhD Thesis, University of Vienna 2017
vol. I, p. 277; vol. II, no. X-73 and pp. 422, 428, 559, 585
ill.

Rosenberg, Paul, Les dessins de la Collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. 4 vols, Paris 2019
vol. II, no. I 1254 on p. 739
ill. on p. 739 ...More

Py, Bernadette, Les dessins italiens de Pierre Crozat (1665-1740). L'oeil de Mariette, http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2015/Catalogue_Crozat
p. 378 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite: “paisages”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Pierre-Jean Mariette (L.2097).

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