Herman van Swanevelt

Zoom image

Download image:

216560v_0001.jpg

Herman van Swanevelt

1603-1655

Hermit Saint Seated on the Ground, Reading a Book

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray-brown wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.

3 7/8 x 3 5/16 inches (99 x 85 mm)

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

III, 214c

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing and III-214a, as well as III-214b, were once together in the Wellesley collection, along with another drawing whose whereabouts are unknown, all attributed to Breenbergh and all once owned by Charles Fairfax Murray.

Inscription:

Inscribed on the verso, in graphite: at center, "Breemberg"; below this, "B 180"; and at lower right corner, "Wellesley Col / 569-0417".

Provenance:

Rev. Dr. Henry Wellesley (1791-1866), Oxford (no mark; see Lugt 1384); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 June-10 July 1866, one of 30 landscapes under Breenbergh's name in lot 569 (to "Fawcett" for £1.4.0); 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:

Breenbergh, Bartholomeus, 1599?-1657, Formerly attributed to.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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. 285.

Catalog link:

See more information »

Artist page:

Swanevelt, Herman van

School:

Century:

Classification:

Department: