Jacob de Gheyn

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Jacob de Gheyn

1565-1629

Mountain Landscape

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.

11 1/2 x 15 5/16 inches (292 x 389 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1967.12

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An inscription on verso at lower right margin, in brown ink, trimmed to illegibility.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis over a shield with diagonal stripes inside, over 4 and letters "WR", Strasbourg bend.

Provenance:

Mrs. Murray Baillie, Ilston Grange, near Leicester; James Murray Usher; sale (Alexandrine de Rothschild and others, including James Murray Usher), Sotheby's 6 July 1967, lot 6 (repr.); acquired from R.M. Light & Co., Boston.

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Associated names:

Baillie, Murray, Mrs., former owner.
Usher, James Murray, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 35, no. 62.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 95-98, repr. (attributed to De Gheyn).
Drawings from Stockholm: A Loan Exhibition from the Nationalmuseum, cat. by Per Bjurström. New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library.1969, under no. 47 (De Gheyn after Stinemolen).
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 147, pl. 39 (attributed to De Gheyn).
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 44, repr. (De Gheyn).
European drawings, 1375-1825 / catalogue compiled by Cara D. Denison & Helen B. Mules ; with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981, no. 72, repr. (De Gheyn).
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 45, repr. [Achim Riether]

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