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Landscape with figures on a road

Maker

Pieter Mulier, the younger (Cavalier Pietro Tempesta) (artist)
1637-1701

Title

Landscape with figures on a road

Date of Production

1657

Medium

black chalk, grey wash on laid paper, upper left corner made up

Dimensions

Height: 18.8 cm
Width: 30 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4084

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

J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 28

Marcel Roethlisberger-Bianco, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and his time, 1970
cat. no. 145
p. 36

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, black chalk, signed and dated by the artist: “MF [or “MJ”?] / 1657 //”. Verso: lower right corner, graphite: “#6”.

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

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