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Landscape with a road cut through the rocks - probably Porte-Pertuis Pass

Maker

(artist)
1627-1692

Title

Landscape with a road cut through the rocks - probably Porte-Pertuis Pass

Date of Production

1680 - 1689

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3438

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

W.W. Wheeler (London); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 31 December 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 January 1944 (£57, along with D.1952.RW.3437); 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

Literature

Sumowski, Werner, trans. by Walter L. Strauss, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 10 vols., New York 1979-1992
vol. X, p. 5066 under no. 2243

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 60
ill. on p. 145

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist: “R. Roghman”. Verso: centre, black chalk: “11912”; lower left corner, graphite, unclear: “m/a [?]”.

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

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