Herman Naiwinx
1624-1651
Rocky Landscape with Two Travelers on a River Road
6 1/4 x 5 9/16 inches (158 x 142 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash on paper.
III, 203
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
The drawing and an almost identical black chalk drawing by Naiwincx formerly owned by the late J.Q. van Regteren Altena are connected with the artist's etching of a "Rocky Landscape with a River", the third in a series of eight landscape prints.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "H: Naúwjncx Ft ["t" in superscript]". Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at upper left corner, "A.E".; at center, "12"; at lower left corner, "210x/2"["210x" in superscript above "2"]; below this, "Esdaile"; further right, in a different hand, "T Th"; at extreme lower left edge, "Naúwijncx"; and at the lower right, in another hand, upside down, "d.x 2 By Van dyk. / fr 25 - Letter [or Petter?] / 28-o-".
Watermark: Crown over a coat-of-arms, fragment.
Watermark: Crown over a coat-of-arms, fragment.
Associated names
Thane, Thomas, 1782-1846, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 203, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 172.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 172.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Catalog link
Department