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Jan Lievens
1607-1674
Pollard Willows and Two Cows
Pen and brown ink on Japanese paper; framing line in brown ink.
9 3/16 x 14 15/16 inches (234 x 380 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 186c
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed on the verso, in graphite: at upper left, "A. 1046"; and at lower left, "GAP / 15 / Lievens".
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, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
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. 83, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 128.
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