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Jan Lievens
1607-1674
Edge of a Walled Town
Reed and quill pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
9 1/8 x 15 inches (232 x 380 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 186f
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Due to their execution in a finer pen, the staffage may be a later addition.
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Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at upper center, "Lievens"; and numbered at lower left, "263", and at lower right, "31661".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, above 4 and letters "WR", (Strasbourg Lily).
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.
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Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, 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. 129.
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