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Gillis Neyts
1623-1687
Italianate Landscape with Vine-Covered Ruin and a Circular Temple
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, on paper.
6 x 8 3/4 inches (152 x 223 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 193a
Notes:
On mat with III, 193.
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points.
Inscription:
Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "AE ̓neytsf̓". Numbered on verso, in graphite, "7-19"; in a modern hand, "32".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
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. 136, no. 293, repr.
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