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View in a Dutch village along a canal

Maker

(artist)
1660-1690

Formerly attributed to
Johannes Leupenius (artist)
1647-1693

Title

View in a Dutch village along a canal

Date of Production

(circa) 1660 - 1690

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 11.1 cm
Width: 20.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3465

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

Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (1803-1882), L.1450; Dr Curt Otto, Leipzig (ca. 1880-1929), L.611c; his estate sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 7 November 1929, lot 89 (as by Leupenius); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 18 January 1944 (£8, as by Leupenius); 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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: tip of a small fleur-de-lis?

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in brown ink: Dr Curt Otto (L.611c); lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Jacob de Vos Jbzn (L.1450); lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “472”; lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A5636”; lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: D.1952.RW.3465”. Verso, glued to upper edge, printed in black ink: strip of newsprint in German: includes words “zeit”, “und” and Kunst”.

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