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Rocky landscape with figures, some on horseback

Maker

(artist)
1679-1772

Title

Date of Production

(or 1743?) 1703

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 34.5 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3996

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

possibly Samuel Scott, London (ca. 1702-1772); possibly in his estate sale, 13 January 1773, lot 92; Randall Davies (1866-1946) [not evident in the catalogue of his sale at Sotheby’s (London), 10-12 February 1947]; J. Leslie Wright (1862-1954); purchased by Colnaghi (London) between July and August 1947 (based on the inscription number on the verso); Mrs. B.K. Young; Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d. (£65); Witt Bequest 1952 Some of the above supplied by Robert Raines, 'Marcellus Laroon; 1967, no. 57.

Exhibition History

Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Tate Gallery, London, 01/07/1967-30/07/1967

Marcellus Laroon, Blairman Gallery, London, 1951

British Art Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1934-10/03/1934

Literature

Osborne, Harold, Aesthetics and Art Theory, London, Longman, 1968
pl. 55 between pp. 134-35

Raines, Robert, Marcellus Laroon, London and New York, 1967
no. 57
pl. 38 on p. 187

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, grey ink, the date gone over in black ink, signed and dated: "M: Laroon. F. 1703." [the date possibly altered from 1743]. Verso: lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A 14643".

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