Jan van Goyen

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Jan van Goyen
1596-1656
Hamlet with Three Men at the Side of the Road
Black chalk on paper; framing line in brown ink.
6 1/16 x 9 7/16 inches (154 x 240 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 175b
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at lower right corner, in brown ink, "IG". Numbered on the verso, at upper left corner, in graphite, "366".

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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.
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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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