Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Farm Buildings and Three Tall Trees

Jan Lievens
1607-1674

Farm Buildings and Three Tall Trees

7 13/16 x 11 13/16 inches (199 x 300 mm)
Pen and brown ink, on paper; faint traces of a framing line in brown ink.
III, 186a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
The drawing is very likely a study-whether or not from nature-which the draughtsman then incorporated in the larger composition (222 x 370 mm) on Japanese paper in the British Museum, London.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso at lower left, in graphite, "dh" (?) and "J. Lievens".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "VM" or "MV" (similar to Heawood, no. 367A: 1683). Individual letters placed between chain lines.
Associated names
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department