Rocky landscape outside Brussels with artist sketching
Maker
(artist)
1610-1690
1610-1690
Title
Rocky landscape outside Brussels with artist sketching
Date of Production
1600 - 1699
Medium
black chalk, grey wash, traces of white bodycolour, on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount
Dimensions
Height: 39.4 cm
Width: 51.1 cm
Width: 51.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3275
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
probably Puttick & Simpson (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 31 March 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 May 1943 (£12); 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
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
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
Literature
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 70
ill. on p. 165
cat. no. 70
ill. on p. 165
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, right centre: includes a small fleur-de-lis but otherwise too obscured by the mount to better identify. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, small letters: "JWHATMAN".
Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, brown ink (the last two letters over red chalk), artist's hand, added on a separate strip of paper probably trimmed from top of the sheet: "búÿten Brússel, D,S,". Mount (historic), Recto): lower centre edge, black ink: "BY A. WATERLOO. / 17th Century. //"; lower right corner, graphite: "Waterlo / 12 //". Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: "(No. 10) / Waterlo__ // [sic] ".
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: upper left edge, brown ink (the last two letters over red chalk), artist's hand, added on a separate strip of paper probably trimmed from top of the sheet: "búÿten Brússel, D,S,". Mount (historic), Recto): lower centre edge, black ink: "BY A. WATERLOO. / 17th Century. //"; lower right corner, graphite: "Waterlo / 12 //". Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: "(No. 10) / Waterlo__ // [sic] ".
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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