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Jan van Goyen
1596-1656
River View with Two Anglers on a Bridge
1651
Black chalk, brown wash, on paper; framing line in black chalk.
6 15/16 x 11 inches (176 x 279 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 174
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Watermark: none.
On mat with III, 172.
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower right, in black chalk, "VG 1651". Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in graphite, 1046; at lower left corner, in brown ink, partly trimmed, "13 B(?)"; at lower center, in graphite, "12/2"; and at lower right, in graphite, "Van Goyen".
Provenance:
Possibly W.H. Barnard, London; possibly his sale, London, Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1893, one of six in lot 69: "Van Goyen. Sketches and Drawings of Landscapes with Figures, black chalk and pen and ink (6)" (to Fairfax Murray for £2.10.0); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Barnard, W. H., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 174, repr.
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