Dirk Maas
1659-1717
Horseman Addressing Two Foot Travelers Resting near a Wayside Shrine and Rustic Chapel
5 7/16 x 8 1/16 inches (138 x 205 mm)
Black chalk, with pen and black ink snd wash, on paper; trace of framing line in black chalk.
I, 160c
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left corner, in black chalk, "D: Maas".
Watermark: Grapes below a cartouche with letters "AGOVRBERO", surmounted by a crown (similar to Churchill, no. 476: France, 1680). Placed across chain lines with word running along chain line, grapes with thick, hollow stem.
Watermark: Grapes below a cartouche with letters "AGOVRBERO", surmounted by a crown (similar to Churchill, no. 476: France, 1680). Placed across chain lines with word running along chain line, grapes with thick, hollow stem.
Associated names
Rigall, Edward, Dr., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, 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. 142.
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Century Drawings
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