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Tollhouse, probably the Oude Wachthuis on the River Kil, near Dordrecht

Maker

(artist)
1627-1692

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1620-1691

Title

Tollhouse, probably the Oude Wachthuis on the River Kil, near Dordrecht

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 19.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3457

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

Émile Galichon, Paris (1829-1875), L.856; his estate sale, Clément (Paris), 10 - 14 May 1875, lot 29 (as by Cuyp); purchased there by his brother, Louis Galichon, Paris (1829-1893), L.1060; C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 4 December 1935; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) (where the attribution was changed from Cuyp to Roghman); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 February 1936 (£6); 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

Literature

Turner, Jane Shoaf and Christopher White, Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2014
p. 92 under no. 47
ill. on p. 92
Under no. 47

Sumowski, Werner, trans. by Walter L. Strauss, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 10 vols., New York 1979-1992
vol. X, p. 5014 under no. 2

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Arms of Amsterdam (partial tracing in file, but the full watermark is there, is just obscured by the heavy wash).

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, brown ink, partially erased: “45 [?]”; upper left, graphite, erased and obscured by L.1060: “950 950 / +. / […] //”; upper right, graphite, partially erased: “Ruisdail / […] //”; upper right corner, brown ink, crossed out in graphite: “115”; upper right corner, graphite: “+.” and again right of centre “+”.

Collector's mark: Verso: upper left corner, stamped in blue ink: Louis Galichon (L.1060); lower centre, stamped in black ink: Emile Galichon (L.856); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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