Pieter Mulier
1637-1701
Rocks and Torrent
7 9/16 x 9 1/4 inches (194 x 235 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue-gray paper.
1985.22
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "Tempeste". Inscribed on old mount, in graphite: at lower left, "8"; at lower right, "Tempesta" (partially erased); and at lower right corner, "494". On the verso of the old mount, at lower left, in graphite (upside down), "081505"; at center, in graphite, "1471"; at lower right, in graphite, "B"; next to this, in red chalk, "1720"; below this, in graphite, "Tempe fec"; and at bottom right corner, in graphite, "D 27306".
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 363.
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