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View of the Ijssel

Maker

(artist)
1628-1697

Title

View of the Ijssel

Date of Production

(5 January) 1672

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, on laid paper, with graphite and brown ink framing lines, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 17.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4381

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

possibly Johannes Stinstra (1708-1790); his sale, Roos (Amsterdam), 17 February 1823, part of lot 44 or lot 47; Lady Phyllis Benton; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 April 1950, lot 18 (£22, with one other); purchased there by Duits (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986 ...More

Met Huygens op Reis, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, 20/11/1982-08/05/1983

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968 ...Less

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 50

Gerson, H., 'Gezicht op Naarden door Constantijn Huygens, de Zoon' in 'Festoen', 1976 - pp. 305-12; 6
p. 306
fig. 6 on p. 311

Rembrandt and his century: Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century from the collection of Frits Lugt, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8 December 1977 - 19 February 1978; Institut néerlandais, Paris, 16 March - 30 April 1978, 1977
p. 87n8 ...More

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 47
ill. on p. 119 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, brown ink, dated by the artist: "Aend [the "d" superscript] Yss.l 5 Jan. 1672. [altered from "1662"]". Verso (now obscured by Japanese tissue): left upper edge, brown ink, artist's hand, upside down: "5 Jan 1672".

Collector's mark: none.

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