Attributed to Willem Schellinks
1627-1678
Ruins of an Aqueduct with a House Built into One End
8 x 11 7/16 inches (203 x 291 mm)
Brush and gray-brown wash, on paper.
I, 116
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at upper right corner, "33"; below at left, "37"; and at lower left corner, in a relatively old hand, partly trimmed away, "L. Polenburg". Inscribed on the old mount, with Knapton code, in brown ink, at upper left, "634"; at center, "N54"; and at upper right, "7N / L66".
Associated names
Poelenburch, Cornelis van, approximately 1594-1667, Formerly attributed to.
Knapton, George, 1698-1778, former owner.
Morrison, George, former owner.
Morrison, Georgina, former owner.
Hawley, Henry, Sir, 1745-1825, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Knapton, George, 1698-1778, former owner.
Morrison, George, former owner.
Morrison, Georgina, former owner.
Hawley, Henry, Sir, 1745-1825, 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, I, 116, repr. (as Cornelis Poelenburgh).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 278.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 278.
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Century Drawings
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