Roelant Savery
1576-1639
Three Figures among the Ruins of the Church of the Knights of St. John in Prague
10 9/16 x 7 11/16 inches (269 x 195 mm)
Pen and brown ink, and brown, gray, and pale pink washes, on paper; framing line in black ink.
1984.17
Purchased as the gift of Samuel P. Reed.
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The drawing represents the left side of the right-hand tower of the Church of the Knights of St. John in Prague. Also known as the Church of Our Lady under the Chain and the Maltesian Church, it was founded in 1158 and its towers erected around 1300. A drawing by Roelandt Savery of the same church was with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, in 1996 (according to his advertisement in Simiolus 26, 1996, nos. 2-3) and was sold at Sotheby℗s, Amsterdam, November 11, 1997, lot 45, as R. Savery.
The drawing represents the left side of the right-hand tower of the Church of the Knights of St. John in Prague. Also known as the Church of Our Lady under the Chain and the Maltesian Church, it was founded in 1158 and its towers erected around 1300. A drawing by Roelandt Savery of the same church was with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, in 1996 (according to his advertisement in Simiolus 26, 1996, nos. 2-3) and was sold at Sotheby℗s, Amsterdam, November 11, 1997, lot 45, as R. Savery.
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Reinicke, Adolf Friedrich Albert, 1773-1838, former owner.
Reinicke, Martin, former owner.
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan, former owner.
Reed, Samuel P., donor.
Reinicke, Martin, former owner.
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan, former owner.
Reed, Samuel P., donor.
Bibliography
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library. The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century. checklist only, 1987, no. 101A.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 378-79.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 53-54, no. 87.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 378-79.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 53-54, no. 87.
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