Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem
1620-1683
View of a River with Mountains in the Distance
1654
5 13/16 x 7 1/2 inches (148 x 190 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash, on paper; framing line in black chalk.
I, 137a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at upper right, in black chalk, "CPB(in ligature)erghem f. / 1654". Inscribed on the verso, at lower left corner, in black ink, "No. ["o" in superscript] 102". On the old mount, underneath the drawing, at lower right, in graphite, "8791 / h/-/-".
Watermark: Foolscap with five points, over "4" and three balls, fragment. No ball on 3rd and 4th collar points. (similar to Heawood, no. 1964), same as watermark on I,137
Watermark: Foolscap with five points, over "4" and three balls, fragment. No ball on 3rd and 4th collar points. (similar to Heawood, no. 1964), same as watermark on I,137
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Landscape Drawings & Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 73.
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. 99,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. 16.
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. 99,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. 16.
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Century Drawings
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