Albert Flamen

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Albert Flamen
17th century
A Heron on the Bank of a River
Pen and brown ink, and gray wash, opaque watercolor, on paper; double framing lines in brown ink.
5 11/16 x 8 11/16 inches (144 x 221 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr. in memory of Landon K. Thorne, Jr.
1980.36
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Signed in lower right corner; in brown ink, "AB [interlaced] Flamen. fe"; inscribed at lower center below border, presumably by the artist, in brown ink, "Héron" (lower half partially trimmed).

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Acquired from Richard Day, London.
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Thorne, Landon K., Jr., Mrs., donor.

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. 128, no. 279, repr.

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