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Peasant Woman of de Zijpe

Willem Pietersz Buytewech
1591 or 2-1624

Peasant Woman of de Zijpe

7 13/16 x 5 1/2 inches (198 x 139 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, with pale blue watercolor, on paper; outlines incised with a stylus; framing line in brown ink on three sides.
1972.10

Purchased as the gift of Frits Markus.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing belongs to a series of eight studies of Dutch country women from different parts of the province of North Holland, all engraved, in reverse, by the Haarlem printmaker Aegidius van Scheyndel (fl. 1620-54); (Hollstein XXXIV, p. 211, under no. 53).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso of the lining, at lower right, in black chalk, "D9".
Associated names
Huls, Samuel van, 1655-1734, former owner.
Markus, Frits, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 155.
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. 53, 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. 48.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department