After Frederik van Valkenborch
Mountainous River Landscape with Distant Castle and Town
6 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches (164 x 211 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on paper.
1983.23
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: countermark with letters C and P with a trefoil above (an Italian mark of the last half of the 16th century, cf. Briquet 728).
Subject taken from Bocaccio, "Decameron", Novella 5:1.
Subject taken from Bocaccio, "Decameron", Novella 5:1.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in an old hand, in brown ink, "di Federico fiamengo Pitor del S[superscript]o duc di Mantova". On verso, in a different old hand, in brown ink, "Federico fiamego pitor d Cmo Duca / di mantova".
Associated names
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Hugelshofer, Walter, 1899- former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Hugelshofer, Walter, 1899- former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 65, no. 112.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 311 (copy after Valckenborch?).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 311 (copy after Valckenborch?).
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Century Drawings
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