Blockhauer, H. B
17th century
Country Village with Two Men Conversing
5 3/8 x 7 1/16 inches (136 x 179 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 247c
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Two drawings on one mat.
Two drawings on one mat.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials at lower right edge, in brown ink, "HB(in ligature)". Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in graphite, "9/2".
Associated names
Tersmitten, Henri, II, former owner.
Testas de Jonge, Pieter, 1702-1784, former owner.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Hijnen, Johannes Ulriens, former owner.
Helmot, Jacon, 1747-1808, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Testas de Jonge, Pieter, 1702-1784, former owner.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Hijnen, Johannes Ulriens, former owner.
Helmot, Jacon, 1747-1808, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 49, 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. 34.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 34.
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Century Drawings
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