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Peasants with cattle and wagons on a road

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1568-1625

Title

Peasants with cattle and wagons on a road

Date of Production

(November) 1610

Medium

pen and brown and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.9 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3952

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

Charles Fairfax Murray, London (1849-1919) [not evident in the catalogue of his estate sale at Christie's, 30 January 1920, though not all drawings were listed in detail]; Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974), L.2811b; Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£47.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Honig, Elizabeth Alice et al., Jan Brueghel: complete catalogue, https://www.janbrueghel.net/search/site/courtauld [accessed 8 March 2021]

Ertz, Klaus, Josse de Momper der Jüngere (1564-1635). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren 1986

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 29 ...More

Klaus Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979
pp. 218-19 and p. 525n254
fig. 273

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: a countermark: a vertical monogram: “4 / C / W”. Wire Profile: Laid line frequency: 10 per cm, variable Chain line widths: 22 mm apart, variable (from Peter Bower's 2021 Report)

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower right edge, stamped in black ink: Dr Carl Robert Rudolf (L.2811b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, grey ink, disturbed by the framing line over it: “november 1610”. Verso: lower right, graphite: “#1”.

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