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.
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.
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