Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Village on the Bank of a Canal

Simon de Vlieger
-1653

Village on the Bank of a Canal

10 1/2 x 16 11/16 inches (266 x 424 mm)
Black chalk, with white chalk, and gray wash, on blue paper.
III, 184a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Remains of an inscription at lower left corner, in brown ink, "V..."( ? ). Inscribed on the old mount, with Knapton code, in brown ink, in center, "P 24"; at upper left, "June 5 - 1807 / Lot 1033"; and at upper right, "6 N / L 3".
Associated names
Knapton, George, former owner.
Morrison, George, General, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 65, repr. (as de Vlieger)
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 322.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department