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Landscape with woman on a footbridge

Maker

Follower of
(artist)
1733-1808

Title

Landscape with woman on a footbridge

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 24.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4266

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

Galerie de Bayser (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Boucher - Landscapes, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 22/01/2005-27/03/2005

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004

Inscriptions

Watermark: Verso, centre: “VANDER LEY”. Final backing sheet for mount (in portfolio from P&D): centre: “LE CHARITIE / A. STUREEVAL [?] / DE LA MANCHE”.

Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower right, graphite, faded: “Ovmt / 2 //”. Backing sheets for mount (removed and now in file), five trimmed pages from pamphlets all dated 1743, printed in black ink: “DE PAR LE ROY. CLAUDE-HENRY FEY DEAU DE MARVILLE [...]” [not fully transcribed]. Final backing sheet for mount (in portfolio from P&D), Recto: right lower edge, lined paper with text printed in black ink: “[...]L des Recettes pendant le mois de […]”. Final backing sheet for mount (in portfolio from P&D), Verso: upper left, pen and brown ink: “L B No 17”; right edge in columns, lined paper with text printed in black ink: “les ont expédiés. des Convois. voiture. fournis. Comptable. Foin. Paille. d'Avoine. d'Orge. d'Épature. de Son. Toile. Treillis.”; lower right corner, graphite: “#12”.

Collector's mark: none.

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