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Simon de Vlieger

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Simon de Vlieger
-1653
Landscape near Haarlem
Black and white chalk, dark gray washes, on blue paper.
15 7/8 x 20 11/16 inches (403 x 525 mm)
Purchased on the Lois and Walter Baker Fund, with the special assistance of the Cremer Fund.
1993.9
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at upper left, in brown ink, "buyten Haarlem". On the verso, in graphite, at center, "...de Vlieger / S Hage (?) / n 234 A. Waterloo"; at lower left corner, "2/9"; and below this, in another hand, "Waterloo/14 ["14" in superscript] duc (?)".

Provenance: 
Pieter de Boer, Hergiswil; by descent to his widow; Galerie Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf; acquired from Otto Naumann, New York.
Associated names: 

Boer, Pieter de, 1894-1974, former owner.
Waterloo, Anthonie, 1610-1690, Formerly attributed to.

Bibliography: 

Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 323.

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Vlieger, Simon de
School: 
Dutch
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints