Boudewijns, Adriaen Frans
1644-1711
Two Men at the Edge of a Woodland Road
8 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (226 x 302 mm)
Point of brush and black, brown, gray, blue, and green watercolor, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 229
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: fleur-de-lis (cf. Heawood 1699: Paris, 1696). Old decorated mount on which drawing is laid down has a different fleur-de-lis mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on old decorated mount, at left immediately below drawing, in brown ink, "Boudovin f."; at lower left corner, in graphite, "Ex Riggall 499". On verso, in different hands, in black ink, in lower left corner, "N. 128"; in brown ink, "1-11-6"; in graphite, "by A.F. Boudewyns", at lower center, in graphite, "3"; in lower right corner, "d/pr/t".
Associated names
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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, III, 229, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 117, no. 263 (repr.)
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 117, no. 263 (repr.)
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