Circle of Peter Paul Rubens

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Circle of Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

Landscape with Farm Buildings: "[Het] Keysers Hof"

Pen and brown ink, watercolor in blue, green, yellow, and red, over black chalk, on paper.

9 1/8 x 18 15/16 inches (232 x 481 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 231

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Watermark: hunting horn (cf. Briquet 7838-39).
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Flemish School.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left, in brown ink, "P. P. Rubens"; on verso, below center, in a seventeenth-century Flemish hand, probably that of the draughtsman, in brown ink, "dits keyzers hof".

Provenance:

Sir John Charles Robinson (Lugt 1433); his sale ("Well-Known Amateur"), London, Christie's, 12-14 May 1902, lot 337 (to Home for £140.0.0); 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:

Anonymous, Flemish School, 17th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, 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, I, 231.
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. 154-156, no. 322, repr.

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