Attributed to Egbert van Drielst

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Attributed to Egbert van Drielst
1745-1818
Cottage in a Thicket
Black chalk, gray wash, with graphite in figures on the left, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (149 x 197 mm)
Gift of Charles R. Blyth.
1979.3
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Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, "Ruisdael".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PD", centered between chain lines.

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R. M. Light and Co., Boston; Charles R. Blyth, Cambridge, Mass.
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Associated names: 

Ruisdael, Jacob van, 1628 or 1629-1682, Formerly attributed to.
Blyth, Charles R. (Charles Ramsay), 1934-, donor.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 213.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 377.

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