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View of Oberwesel on the Rhine

Maker

(artist)
1624-1700

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and light brown ink, grey and brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 40.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4003

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

Jeronimus Tonneman, Amsterdam (1687-1750); his estate sale, Hendrik de Leth (Amsterdam), 21 October 1754 and following days, Konstboek letter 'T', no. 34; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798); van der Schley and Pruyssenaar (Amsterdam), 22 March 1802 and following days, Konstboek letter 'F', probably no. 23; Diderick Baron van Leyden van Vlaardingen (1695-1764); his estate sale, van der Schley and Spaan (Amsterdam), 13 May 1811, Konstboek letter 'E', probably no. 27; Roos, de Vries and Brondgeest (Amsterdam), 1 March 1819, Konstboek letter 'P', no. 5; Dirk Versteegh, Amsterdam (1751-1822); Leo Blumenreich (Berlin); Frits Lugt, The Hague (1884-1970); acquired from him (in exchange for a Breenberg drawing, Witt's drawing no. 609), by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by 1928; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Schulz, Wolfgang, Lambert Doomer: sämtliche Zeichnungen, Berlin and New York 1974
no. 232

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily above “4” above “W” (see tracing in file, 2.9 cm between chain lines, no exact match in Churchill or Heawood).

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

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite, erased and hard to read: "H4 / [...] //"; lower left, grey ink, Ploos van Amstel's hand: "frc._ / de Stad Oberwesel met het Stamhúÿs / van de Pals inden Reÿn. //"; lower centre, graphite: "a"; lower left edge, graphite, erased and hard to read and partly obscured by L.2228b: "[...] J.36 [...] - f60.". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), graphite: "Lambert Doomer 4003 / Dutch / Inscription on the back in the / hand of Ploos v. Amstel. //".

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