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View of the Monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Brussels Gate, Namur

Jan de Beyer
b. 1703

View of the Monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Brussels Gate, Namur

1740
9 3/8 x 13 11/16 inches (237 x 347 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in black ink well within margin.
III, 238

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, outside framing line, in brown ink, "JB(in ligature)eyer". On the verso, at upper center, in black ink, "Monastere des Chanoines Regl. de la St [t in superscript] Croix / et la Porte des Bruxelles a Namur 1740"; at upper left, in graphite, "922".
Associated names
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, 238, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department