Roelant Roghman

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Roelant Roghman
1627-1692
Three Deer in a Rocky Landscape with Wooded Hills in the Distance
Pen and brown ink and wash and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (150 x 231 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 172c
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing is possibly to be associated with the print series "Views of Italy" ("Illustrated Bartsch", 1979, V, nos. 25-32). No. 27 in this series, for example, also shows deer at the foot of a rocky cliff in the middle ground.

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Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "Roelant Roghman".

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.
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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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