Hendrik Goltzius

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Hendrik Goltzius
1558-1617
Mountainous Coastal Landscape
Pen and brown ink, over faint black chalk, on paper.
9 1/4 x 15 1/16 inches (235 x 383 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of the Lore and Rudolf Heinemann Foundation.
1971.3

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Watermark: monogram FMO within a shield (close to Heawood 3196). Watermark, beta radiograph. shield, letters "FMO". 128199wm_1971_3_WM_beta.jpg

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower left corner, in an old hand, in brown ink, "P. Bril". On verso, at center, in graphite, "P. Bril"; at lower left, in brown ink, "8".

Provenance: 
Count Karl Lanckoronski, Vienna; Countess Adelheid Lanckoronska; sale, London, Christie's, 30 March 1971, lot 97; acquired from R.M. Light and Company, Boston.
Associated names: 

Lanckoronski, Karl, Count, former owner.
Lanckoronska, Adelheid, Countess, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 42, no. 68.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 94-95, 114, pl. 20.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974. Vol. 2: Drawings, no. 38, repr.
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. 37, repr.
The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century. (Checklist only). New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1987, no. 59.

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