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Landscape with figures feeding swans in a pond, a cityscape on a hill in the background

Maker

(artist)
1702-1788

Title

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down, with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 33.9 cm
Width: 46.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.389

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

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval (1708-1792); probably by descent to his grandson, Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé; probably purchased from him by Samuel Woodburn (London), 1819; probably purchased from him by Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 December 1921, lot 49 (with D.1952.RW.390); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

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

Literature

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 70

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none visible in the drawing sheet. Remnant of a backing sheet in the centre of the verso: large letters “C Bl” (fragment of D&C Blauw).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, signed with the artist's monogram: "FZ". Verso (backing sheet): upper left corner, graphite: “No 5”; centre, graphite, underlined and crossed out: “158”; lower centre, graphite: “2123”; lower left corner, graphite, underlined: “4”; lower right corner, graphite: “F. Zucarelli / Dijonval Collection”.

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): both at lower left corner, stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426) and Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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