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Italianate landscape (recto)

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1642-1679

Title

Date of Production

1655 - 1679

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, graphite (recto), black chalk (verso), on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 35.3 cm
Width: 24 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4052

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

acquired by Colnaghi (London) between 16 and 29 October 1947; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 December 1948, lot 56; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£200); 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

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

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

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956 ...Less

Literature

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 13
p. 51

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 75

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 128

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis above "4" above "L V G" (no exact match in Churchill or Heawood, closest is Heawood 1823, dated before 1731, but the "4" pointing in the opposite direction. Peter Bower said the "LVG" in the watermark only appeared beginning in 1694.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower left edge, brown ink: "Francisco Mille Fecit"; lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A.14871".

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

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