Abraham Rutgers
1632-1699
A Road by a Canal Approaching a Village
4 5/16 x 8 3/16 inches (110 x 209 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
2000.5
Purchased as the gift of the Markus Family in memory of Frits Markus.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in black chalk, "472"; below this, in another hand (under the de Vos stamp), in black chalk, "...driis (?)"; illegible inscription below this (also under stamp); further below, in graphite, "aL-0-?"; and at lower center, in graphite, "A 5635".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4", (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4", (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Associated names
Vos Jacobszoon, Jacob de, 1803-1878, former owner.
Langerhuizen, Pieter, 1839-1918, former owner.
Otto, Curt, 1880-1929, former owner.
Rudolf, C. R., 1884-1974, former owner.
Markus family, donor.
Langerhuizen, Pieter, 1839-1918, former owner.
Otto, Curt, 1880-1929, former owner.
Rudolf, C. R., 1884-1974, former owner.
Markus family, donor.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 263.
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