Esaias van den Velde
1587-1630
Two Men before Thatched Farmhouses with a Wattled Fence
1616
5 15/16 x 7 7/8 inches (150 x 200 mm)
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 117
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none?.
Although only this drawing is dated (1616), the somewhat similar style, technique and format of I, 117a suggests that the two may have been intended as pendants (though the former is in a slightly lighter shade of brown ink).
Although only this drawing is dated (1616), the somewhat similar style, technique and format of I, 117a suggests that the two may have been intended as pendants (though the former is in a slightly lighter shade of brown ink).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "EʺVV(in ligature)ELDE · 1616".
Associated names
Barnard, W. H., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 117, repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 50.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 305.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 50.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 305.
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