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A Woman Seated Beside a Barrel

Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde
1638-1698

A Woman Seated Beside a Barrel

8 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (213 x 182 mm)
Red chalk on paper; framing line in black chalk.
1996.3

Purchased on the Lois and Walter Baker Fund

Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing is a study for the artist's painting "Oriental Market Hall", which was on the Munich art market in 1971.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at lower center, with dealer's code, in graphite, "96/L7777" ("L" is uppercase Greek lamda).
Associated names
Bega, Cornelis Pietersz., approximately 1631-1664.
Gordon, R., former owner.
Gordon, R., Mrs., 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. 27.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department