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Flemish School
18th century
A Man Reading a Book. Verso: Three Warriors
Black chalk on paper; framing line in brown ink; verso: slight sketches in red chalk.
5 15/16 x 4 5/16 inches (151 x 110 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1964.12
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Watermark: none.
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Numbered on verso, in a modern hand, in purple crayon, "36".
Provenance:
Acquired from W.R. Jeudwine, London.
Bibliography:
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 144 (Flemish School, late 17th century).
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 163, no. 341, repr.
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