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Landscape with a wayfarer

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1578-1610

Title

Date of Production

1650 - 1670

Medium

brush and brown ink, brown wash, grey and white bodycolour on brown-toned laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 32.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.254

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

Benjamin West, London (1738-1820), L.419 (lower right); possibly his estate sale, Christie’s (London), 9 - 13 June 1820, 4th day's sale, no. 60 (as Elsheimer, 'One, a landscape, twilight') [this identification suggested by Jacoby 2008]; Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left); ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 380; purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938

Literature

Jacoby, Joachim, Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer. Kritischer Katalog, Stadel Museum 2008
p. 331n115

Sumowski, Werner, trans. by Walter L. Strauss, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 10 vols., New York 1979-1992
vol. X, no. 2441
attributed to Pieter de Wit

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 43
ill. on p. 53
as previously ascribed to Elsheimer' ...More

Andrews, Keith, Adam Elsheimer : paintings-drawing-prints, New York 1977
no. A 53
as circle of Jacob van Ruisdael

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 254

Adam Elsheimer: Werk, künstlerische Herkunft und Nachfolge, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1966 - 1967
under nos. 161 and 162

Möhle, Hans, Die Zeichnungen Adam Elsheimers. : Das Werk des Meisters und der Problemkreis Elsheimer-Goudt, Berlin 1966
no. 63 and pp. 45, 48, 131, 155, 158, 162, 165, 174
pl. 41
as Elsheimer

Möhle, Hans, 'Eine bisher unbekannte Landschaftsgouache von Adam Elsheimer' in 'Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft', Berlin 1965; XIX
pp. 192, 196
ill.

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 254
pl. LXXX
as Elsheimer, c. 1608-10

Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 226, no. 19

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
cat. no. 489

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
p. 230
pl. XCVII

Dodgson, Campbell, Vasari Society, 2nd series, part XII, 1931
no. 9 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing. Mount (historic): lower centre edge, fragment: tips of two or three letters.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, false signature: “Rembrant”. Mount (historic), Recto: upper centre margin, graphite: “380/1”; lower left corner, graphite: “1621” over “25”; lower left margin, graphite: “A Elsheimar”. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: “12”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); lower right corner, blindstamped: Benjamin West (L.419).

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