Attributed to Aelbert Cuyp
1620-1691
View of Gorinchem
4 3/16 x 9 inches (106 x 228 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash on paper; framing line in black ink.
I, 121
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in Esdaile's hand, in black ink: at center, "A View of Dort-by A. Cuyp"; at lower right, "WE(erased) 1807 - Trowards collection P 26(crossed out and changed to "35"). N...84". Esdaile's initials have been scraped away from the right corner of the recto and at the beginning of the inscription at the left corner on the verso.
Associated names
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, 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, no. 121, repr. (as possibly representing Dort).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 53.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 53.
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Century Drawings
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