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Flemish School
17th century
Spectators Witnessing a Procession of Horsemen, an Angel Vanquishing a Man in the Foreground
3 13/16 x 5 1/8 inches (97 x 130 mm)
Black chalk on paper; framing lines in gray wash, gone over with red wash.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 42(1)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: Horse and rider (cf. Heawood 2808, 2810-15: Amsterdam, 1665/7), fragment. Rider with hunting horn, saddle, reins, rider wearing hat. Watermark, beta radiograph. Horse, rider, horn.
Recueil de Dessins folio 42(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).
Recueil de Dessins folio 42(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, graphite "Van der Meulen"; on verso, in another hand, in graphite, "Van der Meulen"; on the album page, in Destailleur's hand, in graphite, "Antoine François van der Meulen. 1634 -Bruxelles".
Associated names
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, 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
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. 116, no. 257, repr.
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