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Landscape with Conversing Peasants
Landscape with Conversing Peasants
Object number2021.8

Landscape with Conversing Peasants

Artist (Italian, 1728 - 1781)
MediumPen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk, within brown ink framing lines
DimensionsPlate: 5 13/16 x 8 in. (14.8 x 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (14.9 x 21 cm)
Matted (Old mat): 7 13/16 x 10 5/8 in. (19.8 x 27 cm)
Matted (Newer mat): 14 x 16 1/2 in. (35.6 x 41.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Suzette Morton Davidson, class of 1934, Fund
On View
Not on view
Period18th c
Classification(s)
Inscribedwritten in pencil in LL corner of old mat: FSNER; written in pencil in LR corner of old mat: D1723; on verso erased pencil markings
ProvenanceBenno Geiger, Vienna; Sir Robert Witt, London, by whom gifted to Catriona Bonavia, 1932, thence by inheritance, sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 June 1970, lot 59 (as Gaetano Gandolfi); with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1971, no. 34 (as Gaetano Gandolif); with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, where acquired, circa 1971 (N.B. RobertWitt, 1872-1952, was co-founder of the Courtauld Art Institute.)
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