Albert Flamen
17th century
A Heron on the Bank of a River
5 11/16 x 8 11/16 inches (144 x 221 mm)
Pen and brown ink, and gray wash, opaque watercolor, on paper; double framing lines in brown ink.
1980.36
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr. in memory of Landon K. Thorne, Jr.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
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).
Associated names
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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Century Drawings
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