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Landscape on outskirts of town

Maker

Manner of
Lucas Achtschellinck (artist)
1626-1699

Title

Landscape on outskirts of town

Date of Production

1640 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown, green and grey wash, white bodycolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.7 cm
Width: 40.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3331

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

Baron Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette, Boulogne-sur-Seine and Paris (1864-1934), L.2200a; his sale, Hollstein and Puppel, Berlin, 4-6 May 1931, lot 1034 (as Dutch School, 17th century); Dr Alfred Scharf, London; acquired from him (in part exchange) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£12); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, very hard to decipher: “B[…]”. Verso: upper left, graphite: “C 3”; lower centre, graphite, erased: "Aert van de Neer / 1677"; lower right, graphite, underlined: “Lucas Achtschellinck”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in blue ink: Baron Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette (L.2200a).

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