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Pastoral landscape with figures

Maker

(artist)
1671-1749

Title

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 35.2 cm
Width: 23 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4190

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

Benno Geiger, Italy (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 86; Mrs H.F. Ezekiel (?); her sale, Sotheby's (London), 22 June 1949, lot 38 (with D.1952.RW.4192 and 4194); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Riccomini, Marco, Donato Creti: Le opere su carta: catalogo ragionato, Turin, 2012
no. 51.1 on p. 54

Consigli Valente, Patrizia, Disegni antichi, Parma, 1988
p. 167

Johnston, Catherine, Il seicento e il settecento a Bologna, Milan, 1971
pl. XXXV ...More

Geiger, Benno, Handzeichnungen alter Meister, Zurich, 1948
no. 64, p. 23
ill. on p. 94 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: centre: fleur-de-lis inscribed in a circle, above which is the letter “P” (not found in Heawood, Briquet or Piccard). Support (old - removed but remounted with the drawing), upper right: “CM / ITALIA ” (not in Heawood).

Inscription: No. 9-

Inscription: 384

Inscription: 58

Inscription: Donato Creti

Inscription: #5 / x //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: P

Inscription: CM / ITALIA //

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