Wood landscape with vista

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Maker

Circle of
Circle of
(artist)
1544-1607
Formerly attributed to
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1576-1632

Title

Wood landscape with vista

Date of Production

1560 - 1607

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown and grey-blue wash, white bodycolour on brown-prepared laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 39 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.4155

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to backing sheet.

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

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: “Vincaboon”. Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, graphite: “D. Vinckebons”; lower right, green crayon: “9”; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: “P / A 15924 / AX //”. Outer mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4155”; lower right corner, graphite: “David Vinckeboons (?) / Flemish. 1578-1629 / (after or circle of Coninxloo) / D.1952.RW.4155 //”. Outer mount (removed, see photo), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, Colnaghi number and price: “A15924 / £25/-/- //”; upper centre, graphite: “David VINCKEBOONS”. Inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: graphite arrow pointing up at name on drawing.

Provenance

W. Thompson; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 3 November 1948; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 21 April 1949 (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Wadum, Jørgen, 'The Hunting Scene Painter' in Lex [Danish National Encyclopaedia], February 2026 (https://lex.dk/Jagtscenemaleren)
ill.
as 'the hunting scene painter', also known as Master of the Rosenborg Hunting Scenes
Wadum, Jørgen, ‘Malerier på samlebånd. Nyt lys over Christian IV's Vinterstue på Rosenborg Slot’, in Museumsmagasinet, 1987, 39, pp. 8-10
ill. on p. 9 (as Vinckboons)
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132

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