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Landscape with river and bridge

Maker

(artist)
1703-1770

Title

Landscape with river and bridge

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 40.8 cm
Width: 53.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3439

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




Notes

This sheet is preparatory for the painting 'Two peasants in a landscape' (1749). The painted setting was executed by Boucher’s pupil Nicolas Juliard after Boucher’s template, while Boucher himself contributed two figures to the scene.

Provenance

Guy Bellingham-Smith, London (1865-1949); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 3 January 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 3 January 1944 (£75); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Boucher - Landscapes, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 22/01/2005-27/03/2005

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less

Literature

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 59

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 65

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 50 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 61
ill. on p. 77 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, left centre: “P B” (not found in Heawood).

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

Inscription: none.

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