Copy after Jan Brueghel
1568-1625
Village Traversed by a River
16th century
7 5/16 x 8 15/16 inches (185 x 228 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, brush and blue wash, over black chalk, on paper.
I, 115
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered in lower right corner, in brown ink, "21"; inscribed on verso, in graphite, "Brueghel B 18 /"; in another hand, "... / 569-0417".
Associated names
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, 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.
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. 26, no. 45.
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. 26, no. 45.
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Century Drawings
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