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Jan van de Velde
1593-1641
Rocky Landscape with Fortified City on a Distant Promontory
Pen and point of brush, brown ink, brown wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
4 7/8 x 4 inches (125 x 102 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 46(1)
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Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 46(1).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Inscription:
Inscribed at the upper right, in an old hand, in brown ink, "E.velde". On the verso: at lower center, in Destailleur's hand, in graphite, "E. Van de Velde"; and in the lower left corner, in brown ink, "8...1".
Provenance:
Madame Sophie (d. 1782); Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-93), Paris (no mark; see Lugt 740); his sale, Paris, Damascène Morgand, 26-7 May 1893, lot 98 (bought in for 4,300 frs.); 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:
Sophie, of France, Madame, daughter of Louis XV, 1734-1782, former owner.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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