Jan Bruegel
1568-1625
Cargo Vessels and Rowboats off a Wharf
7 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (194 x 296 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, and blue watercolor, on laid paper.
I, 115a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in graphite, at upper center, "No ["o" superscript] 3"; at lower right, No ["o" superscript] 5"; below, "... Percy Sale". Inscribed on old mount, with Knapton code, in brown ink, at center, "N / 55", at upper left, "136"; at upper right, "4N / L26".
Watermark: "4" over letters "GW", centered between chain lines.
Watermark: "4" over letters "GW", centered between chain lines.
Associated names
Knapton, George, former owner.
Morrison, George, General, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Hawley, Henry, Sir, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.
Morrison, George, General, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Hawley, Henry, Sir, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.
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. 26, no. 44.
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