Jan Wildens

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Jan Wildens

1585-1653

Harvest Scene

Pen and brown ink, and gray, brown, and gray-blue wash, point of brush and gray wash (in foliage), over black chalk, on paper; some outlines incised with the stylus.

10 5/16 x 14 13/16 inches (262 x 377 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of E. Powis Jones.

1975.20

Notes:

Watermark: hunting horn, in heart-shaped shield (cf. Heawood 2646). Watermark (beta radiogrpah), hunting horn, Shield.
A study, in reverse, for the engraving of August by Andries Stock (Hollstein, XVIII, p. 92, no. 13) in the series of the months designed by Wildens and published in 1614.

Provenance:

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 November 1974, lot 124; acquired from Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London.

Associated names:

Jones, Edward Powis, 1919-1998, 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. 162, no. 339, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 296.
Adler 1980, p. 25-27, 118, Z. 11, fig. 181.

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