Landscape with woman on a footbridge
Maker
Follower of
(artist)
1733-1808
(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
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
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.
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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