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

Covered wagon

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Copy after Jan Bruegel
1568-1625

Covered wagon

3 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches (100 x 124 mm)
Pen and brown ink, blue wash, on paper; framing line in brown.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 39(1)

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 39(1).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in dark brown ink, "Breughel f."; on verso, in graphite, "No 1 [o in superscript]".
Associated names
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Morgand, Damascène, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 27, no. 46.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department