Jan van Goyen
1596-1656
Three Peasants beside a Fence on a Hillock
4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (120 x 169 mm)
Black chalk on paper; framing line in black chalk.
III, 175d
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
This sheet is part of the same sketchbook as III, 175c and nine other surviving leaves.
This sheet is part of the same sketchbook as III, 175c and nine other surviving leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, "V.V.G. / a b".
Associated names
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 88.
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Century Drawings
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