Landscape with a Draftsman

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Landscape with a Draftsman

circa 1645
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 41 1/8 × 46 1/2 in. (104.46 × 118.11 cm) Framed: 52 × 57 × 4 in. (132.08 × 144.78 × 10.16 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (M.2009.106.3)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

[Possibly Agnew’s, London, 1919].(1) [Shickman Gallery, New York, sold 1968 to]; Mr. and Mrs.

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[Possibly Agnew’s, London, 1919].(1) [Shickman Gallery, New York, sold 1968 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Farmer, Jr., Providence, RI, sold 1977 to; [Shickman Gallery, New York, sold 1979 to]; [Nystad Gallery, The Hague, sold 1979 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) According to the mount of an otherwise undescribed photograph in the Witt Library, London. The photograph may also represent the second version of the painting owned by David Carter. The painting is possibly identical with no. 5324. "Both, Landscape with Figures," acquired by Agnew’s from A. Wertheimer on 5 February 1919 and sold to Liggatt on 30 August 1923. That painting is described as 39 × 50 in. Records of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Getty Research Institute.

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Bibliography

  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Spicer, Joaneath A., and Lynn Federle Orr. Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Baltimore: The Walters Art Galler, 1997.
  • Duparc, Frederik J., and Linda L. Graif. Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990.
  • Sutton, Peter C. El Siglo de Oro del Paisaje Holandés. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1994.
  • Walsh, Amy L. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings (accessed May 23, 2022).
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