Pieter de Molijn
1595-1661
Family Group of Five in a Landscape with Birdcatchers
5 13/16 x 7 11/16 inches (148 x 196 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 166
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at upper right corner, in black chalk, "PM["P" in superscript, "M" in subscript]olyn. Inscribed on the verso, at lower center, in graphite, "2 / 50".
Watermark: Foolscap with five points. Upper fragment of head and neck, two balls on cap.
Watermark: Foolscap with five points. Upper fragment of head and neck, two balls on cap.
Associated names
Barnard, W. H., 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
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 166, 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. 167.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 167.
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