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Jacob Cats
1741-1799
Wayfarers on a Country Road outside Haarlem
1786
Pen and brown ink and wash, opaque lead white (now oxidized), on paper; framing line in brown ink.
5 1/16 x 7 9/16 inches (129 x 192 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 165a
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Bloemendaal is a town in the bulb fields, just north of Haarlem; Overveen lies to the west.
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Inscribed, signed, and dated by the artist on the verso, at lower left, in brown ink, "Buÿten Haarlem / Tuschen Bloemendaal / en overveen / J. Cats fec 1786"; and at upper center, in another hand, in graphite, "J. Cats / W 150 5".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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