Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Country Village with Two Men Conversing

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.
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.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department