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Landscape with cottage, two resting figures in foreground

Maker

(artist)
1566-1651

Title

Landscape with cottage, two resting figures in foreground

Date of Production

(circa) 1650

Medium

black chalk, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3841

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

George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), L.1530; his estate sale, T. Philipe (London), 10 - 17 June 1811, probably p. 7 under nos. 50-51; Winel(?) Collection, Toulouse; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, Maidenhead (1882-1950); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 20 July 1938; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 11 September 1946 (£7); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

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 ...More

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Bolten, Jaap, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651: the drawings, 2007
no. 1640 on p. 483
fig. 1640 on p. 486

Allen, Eva Jeney, 'Pieter Molyn's paintings in the National Gallery in Prague' in 'Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague', 1993-94 - pp. 120-23; III-IV
p. 120
with erroneous acc. no. 3481

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 32
ill. on p. 89 ...More

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 6

Woodall, Joanna, 'Ad Vivum' conference pop-up display introduction, London ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (see tracing in file - no exact match in Heawood, Churchill, Briquet or Piccard).

Inscription: Backing sheet (removed, in portfolio in P&D), Recto: lower right, graphite: “A Blomaert. / Lord Spencer's Collection / Coll. Winel[?], Toulouse //”. Secondary backing sheet (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: upper centre, pen and brown ink: “O / No. 8 //”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: John Spencer (L.1530). Backing sheet (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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