Italian Landscape with Fortifications and a Waterfall
mid-1660s
Artist, French, 1615 - 1675

Artwork overview
-
Medium
black and white chalk on blue laid paper
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
sheet: 29.6 × 41.2 cm (11 5/8 × 16 1/4 in.)
-
Accession
2017.14.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Edward Habich, Boston and Kassel. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin [c. 1840 - 1914] (Lugt 2926); (his sale, F. A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 4-5 October 1917, no. 453). Bernhard Himmelheber, Karlsruhe [1898 - 1966]; by descent to Georg Himmelheber, Munich; (W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2017
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Gaspard Dughet, Italian Landscape with Fortifications and a Waterfall." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 57 (Fall 2017): 33 (color).
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Sammlung Rud. Ph. Goldschmidt (1840 - 1914) / Verstegert bei Prestel, [not deciphered] 4.-11.X.1907 / Gaspard Poussin, 1613 - 1675; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [not deciphered]
Wikidata ID
Q64571019