Attributed to Jan Wildens
1585-1653
Woodland Ponds with Two Fisherman
8 3/4 x 14 3/16 inches (221 x 360 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and yellow-brown with some gray wash, extensively tinted with the green watercolor, over faint traces of graphite, on paper.
I, 239a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: illegible device within a shield, surmounted by a crown.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered on that part of mount underneath the drawing, with Knapton code, in brown ink, at upper left, "1072"; at center, "P 46"; at upper right, "4N / L52".
Associated names
Lankrink, Prosper Henricus, 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, 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, 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. 163, no. 340 repr.
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Century Drawings
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