Josua de Grave
active 1660-1712
The House at Baerschot
1681
6 7/8 x 17 7/16 inches (174 x 443 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on two pieces of paper pasted together at right quarter.
1962.2
Gift of William S. Glazier.
Notes
Ruled border in dark brown ink, and a matching one on the old blue mount.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, dated, and inscribed by the artist, at lower center, in brown ink, "Josúa de Grave: 1681 11maent ["11 maent" in superscript]/20-dagh ["20 dagh" in subscript below "11 maent"]" [20 November]; at upper right, "1: Thuÿs te Baerschot / 2: Dorp: Es: omtrent anderhalf- / úúr: gaens van: s'hartogenbos:". Numbered by the artist, at the center, above the house, "1"; and at the left, above the village church, "2". Inscribed on the verso of the mount, at upper center, in black chalk, "B.P.(?)C".
Drawing: Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (similar to Heawood, no. 434: Holland, ca. 1685), fragment, rampant lions, three stacked 'X's; illegible countermark.
Old mount: Watermark: Letters "B (star) C (star)" inside a rectangle, above a crescent, on old mount.
Drawing: Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (similar to Heawood, no. 434: Holland, ca. 1685), fragment, rampant lions, three stacked 'X's; illegible countermark.
Old mount: Watermark: Letters "B (star) C (star)" inside a rectangle, above a crescent, on old mount.
Associated names
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 148.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 81.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 94.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 81.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 94.
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