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Lucas van Uden
1595-1672
The Capuchin Monastery in the Forest of Soignes, Tervueren
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and watercolor in red, blue, and yellow, over faint indications in graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (222 x 311 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 239
Inscription:
Numbered on verso, at lower left, in brown ink, "No [o superscript] 379; above, in graphite, "i/-".
Provenance:
Unidentified eighteenth-century collector (similar, but not identical to Lugt S. 2986b); 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.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912 I, 239, repr.
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. 160, no. 336 repr.
Notes:
Watermark: none.
Drawing is a study for the painting in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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