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Landscape with ruins (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1594-1667

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, grey wash, with brown ink framing lines (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 28.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.895

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

Hubert George Howard Galton, Hadzor House, Worcester (1854-1928); his estate sale, Cheshire, Gibson & Co. (Birmingham), 29 November 1929, lot 1273 (with D.1952.RW.3167); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 16 September 1935 (£9 and in part exchange for a large number of drawings Witt brought in that same day); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Chong, Alan, 'The drawings of Cornelis van Poelenburch' in 'Master Drawings', Spring 1987 - pp. 3-62, 85-116; 25, 1
no. 94

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 55
Illus. p. 135

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: foolscap with seven points above three stacked circles (very faint – see tracing in file; 2.5 cm between chain lines).

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite: “Poelenburg”; lower left corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A5682”; recorded in file, no longer visible but possibly hidden at lower left corner under handling edges: “nr.11”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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