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Gerard Hoet
1648-1733
Musicians at a Balcony
1660
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite and black chalk, on paper; design inscribed with oval framing line in brown ink.
Irregular silhouetted oval: 9 x 9 13/16 inches (229 x 250 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 158
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Watermark: none.
Design for a ceiling decoration.
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower edge, outside of design oval, in brown ink, "Gerardus Hoet inventor Ao. ["o" in superscript] 1660".
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:
Hoet, Gerard, 1648-1733, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 158, repr.
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