Wooded landscape with a solitary figure
Maker
Jan Wildens (artist)
1585-1653
1585-1653
Title
Wooded landscape with a solitary figure
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and green wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 31.2 cm
Width: 31.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4342
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
E. Kersley, London (active 1930-1960); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 October 1946; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 20 February 1950 (£12, as 'Flemish School 17th century'); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Adler, Wolfgang, Jan Wildens: Der Landschaftmitarbeiter des Rubens, Fridingen, 1980
pp. 242-43
fig. 217
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133
pp. 242-43
fig. 217
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: foolscap with four points and a large braid, above “4” and letters, ? and “C”, above three Medici balls (no match in Heawood and Peter Bower had no further information).
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink: “(J.) / 41. //”; lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 13916”. Support (historic), Recto: centre, graphite, underlined: “276”; lower right edge, graphite: “Van Uden”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, upside down, four lines mostly illegible: “pla[…] / 2 […] //”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink: “(J.) / 41. //”; lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 13916”. Support (historic), Recto: centre, graphite, underlined: “276”; lower right edge, graphite: “Van Uden”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, upside down, four lines mostly illegible: “pla[…] / 2 […] //”.
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