Landscape on outskirts of town
Maker
Manner of
Lucas Achtschellinck (artist)
1626-1699
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
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
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).
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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