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Landscape with ruins and washerwoman by a stream

Maker

Jean Henry Alexandre Pernet (artist)
1763-1789

Title

Landscape with ruins and washerwoman by a stream

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, cut into an oval, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 27 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3621

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

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Provenance

Weininger (?); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Backing sheet: centre: fleur-de-lis above a shield with a bend, above a “V” – could be “VDL” but is unclear.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower right in the water, brown ink, signed by the artist: “Pernet”. Verso (backing sheet): right centre, brown ink, both lines crossed through: “N / 1982 //”; lower right, graphite, unclear: “M Parke £30/-“.

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower centre edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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