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David Bailly
1584-1657
Portrait of an Ensign
5 5/16 x 4 inches (135 x 102 mm), oval
Point of brush and brown wash, pen and dark brown ink, on paper. Framing line in brown ink.
2004.49:18
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 6, no. 18 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
The inscription on the album leaf is an old attribution to the Dutch artist Michiel van Miereveldt (1567-1641).
Not in Fairfax Murray.
The inscription on the album leaf is an old attribution to the Dutch artist Michiel van Miereveldt (1567-1641).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at lower center in pen and brown ink: "Sitters Vaandrager Tot L"[?; partially cut off]" / Bally"; on album leaf beyond decorative border at right in graphite: "Miervelt".
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in The Pierpont Morgan Library, forthcoming.
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Century Drawings
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