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Study of a tree

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1604-1682

Title

Study of a tree

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk and white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 38.8 cm
Width: 24.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.216

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left); purchased from him (en bloc, among 100 drawings by Claude) by William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617 (lower left); his estate sale, Christie’s (London), 30 June 1840, probably lot 5 ("A pair of sketches of trees; upright, heightened with white"); purchased there by William Benoni White, London (d. c. 1878), L.2592 (lower left); Sir Edward John Poynter, London (1836-1919), L.874 (lower left); his sale, Sotheby’s (London), 24-25 April 1918, lot 214; Matthiesen Gallery (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 17 May 1946 (£65); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain: the drawings, Berkeley 1968; 2 vols
p. 448 under no 1241
suggested reattribution to Angeluccio

Röthlisberger, Marcel, 'Drawings around Claude, Part Two: Drawings by Angeluccio' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 1966 - pp. 375-383, 455-467; 4, 4
no. 26

Roethlisberger, Marcel, 'Bemerkungen zum zeichnerischen Oeuvre von Claude Lorrain' in 'Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte', 1961; XXIV, 2
p. 176n19 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 216
pl. XLI
as doubtful by Claude, dated late 17th-early 18th century ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down; none evident in raking light.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); lower left corner, stamped in black: Edward John Poynter (L.874); lower left, written in brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617); lower left, blindstamped: William Benoni White (L.2592).

Inscription: none.

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