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Three Peasants beside a Fence on a Hillock

Jan van Goyen
1596-1656

Three Peasants beside a Fence on a Hillock

4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (120 x 169 mm)
Black chalk on paper; framing line in black chalk.
III, 175d

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This sheet is part of the same sketchbook as III, 175c and nine other surviving leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, "V.V.G. / a b".
Associated names
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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. 88.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department