Attributed to Jan Asselijn
-1652
An Artist Seated on the Ground, Sketching
5 15/16 x 6 13/16 inches (151 x 173 mm)
Black chalk on paper; framing line in graphite.
1974.69
Purchased as the gift of Catherine Warner.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at center, "889"; at lower center, "34 N"; at left, "#249"; and at lower left corner, "Jan Asslyn (eigen Portret) 1610 / b:j genaamd Krabbetje".
Watermark: Basilisk (Cockatrice) threatening a church (similar to Heawood, no. 842: Holland, 1611), dragon, basilisk, threatening church, crozier.
Watermark: Basilisk (Cockatrice) threatening a church (similar to Heawood, no. 842: Holland, 1611), dragon, basilisk, threatening church, crozier.
Associated names
Warner, Catherine, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 150.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 2.
Burlington Magazine, CXVI, November 1974, cxxxiv, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 2.
Burlington Magazine, CXVI, November 1974, cxxxiv, repr.
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