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Village Kermis

David Vinckboons
1576-1629

Village Kermis

1603
8 1/8 x 11 9/16 inches (205 x 294 mm)
Pen and brush and black and brown inks, watercolor and opaque white and varying shades or blue, red, and green, on laid paper; framing line in black ink.
III, 164

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: illegible.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with monogram (interlaced) and dated at lower left, in brush and white opaque watercolor, "DVB 1603". Inscribed (signed?) on verso, at upper left, in a seventeenth-century hand, in brown ink, "Davidt Vinckeboons"; in a later hand in brown ink "£50-extra"; at lower left, in graphite, "Collection of the / Marquis Vindé / & Miss James"; at lower right, in black chalk, "No. 1367" (inventory number of the collection of Vicomte Morel de Vindé).
Associated names
Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1758-1823, former owner.
Gibbs, James, 19th cent., former owner.
James, Miss, d. ca. 1891, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913
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, III, 164, 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. 100, no. 218, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 46, repr. [Achim Riether]
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department