Circle of Adam Frans van der Meulen
1632-1690
General on Horseback Receiving the Keys of a Conquered City
16 1/2 x 23 inches (419 x 585 mm)
Black and red chalk on paper; incised with the stylus.
I, 249
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: sun face with illegible countermark (cf. Heawood 3898; Briquet under soleil).
Inscriptions/Markings
Lettered at lower left, in graphite, "VAN DER MEULEN". Inscribed on verso at upper left, in an old hand, in graphite, "Vandermeulen No. 63".
Associated names
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, 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, 249.
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. 135, no. 290, repr.
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. 135, no. 290, repr.
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