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Landscape with trees by a rock (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1570-1613

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1568-1625

Title

Date of Production

1588-1589

Medium

pen and brown ink, blue wash (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.321

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

probably Helene de Beer, London (1898-1984); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 22 July 1957; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 26 June 1958 (£50); Princes Gate Bequest 1978 An oddity in the Colnaghi archive books: this drawing is inscribed with Colnaghi inv. no. A.22275, but in the Colnaghi books that drawing is listed as ‘Earl of Dunmore. Soure River Hudson Bay River Territory, watercolour, 9 x 13 ½ inches'. However, the purchase price and date are correct for PG.321, and we have the invoice that lists all of the drawings Seilern bought on 27 June 1958 – there is no drawing by Earl of Dunmore, but there is this drawing, which at the time was thought to be by Jan Brueghel the elder. I am therefore tentative to accept that this drawing was purchased from Mrs de Beer, as the archive book says, as there must have been a mix-up with another drawing.

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 17/06/1958-17/07/1958

Literature

Gerszi, Teréz, Paulus van Vianen: Handzeichnungen, Hanau 1982
no. 38 (recto) and 38v (verso) on pp. 202-03
pl. 40 (recto), pl. 95 (verso)

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 321
as Vianen, before 1588/89

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; IV
no. 321
pl. XXV (recto), XXVI (verso)
as Jan Brueghel the elder, c. 1600 ...More

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 17 June - 17 July 1958
no. 70 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A22275".

Collector's mark: none.

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