David Teniers
1610-1690
Village Street with Three Figures
7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (191 x 273 mm)
Black chalk on paper; traces of a framing line in brown ink.
I, 124b
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: Foolscap with five points (cf. Churchill 341; Heawood 1964).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower edge, left of center, with monogram. Numbered on verso, at lower right, in brown ink, ".8.8"; at upper right, in graphite, "6".
Associated names
Lempereur, Jean-Denis, 1701-1779, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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. 159, no. 332 repr.
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Century Drawings
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