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Pieter de Molijn
1595-1661
Two Men and a Boy at the Fork of a Road
Black chalk and gray wash, on paper; framing line in black chalk.
5 7/8 x 7 11/16 inches (149 x 196 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 166a
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Watermark: none.
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Signed at upper left (partially cut off), in black chalk, "PM["P" in superscript, "M" in subscript]olyn".
Provenance:
Probably Dr. Edward J. Riggall, London; probably his sale, London, Sotheby's, 6-8 June 1901, one of seven in lot 521: "P. Molyn. Studies of landscape, mostly signed (7)" (to Fairfax Murray for £7.0.0); 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:
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (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. 168.
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