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Pastoral scene in a clearing (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1604-1682

Title

Date of Production

c. 1640 - 1650

Medium

black chalk, brown wash and white bodycolour (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper, with historic paper margins

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 28.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.416

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

Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2184 (lower centre); F Keppel (New York), January 1915 (exhibition); Ruth Heidsieck (née Hill), New York (1879-1959); her estate sale, Parke-Bernet (New York), 12 May 1960, lot 85; purchased there by Marcel Röthlisberger; purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), October 1961 (£1,500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

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

Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, F. Keppel, New York, January 1915

Literature

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 23
pp. 54, 177
ill. on p. 55
dated c. 1640-50

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
no. 38
ill. on p. 50

Seilern, Count Antoine, Recent Acquisitions at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1971; VI
no. 416
pls. XXVI (recto), XXVII (verso)
dated c. 1640-50 ...More

Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain: the drawings, Berkeley 1968; 2 vols
no. 620 and p. 38
ill.
dated c. 1645-50

Röthlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain: the paintings, New Haven 1961
no. 6 on p. 394
fig. 331

Roethlisberger, Marcel, 'Claude Lorrain' in 'Art de France', I, 1961
p. 352
ill.

Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, F. Keppel, New York, January 1915
cat. no. no. 12
p. 9 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: six-pointed star above a crown (closest matches in Heawood are 1117 and 1122 - Rome 1552 and Bologna 1631 - but the star on our sheet directly touches the tip of the crown).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre edge, blindstamped: Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2184).

Inscription: Margins (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: "146".

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