Cornelis Pronk
1691-1759
Study of a Snake
1726
9 1/4 x 16 inches (235 x 406 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1999.37
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Turner in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows.
Notes
The drawing is one of a series by the artist dated 1726.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right, in graphite, "C Pronk. fc:". Inscribed on the verso, at upper left corner, upside down, in graphite, "13839 (inscribed in a circle"; beside this, in another hand, in graphite, "From a series dated 1726"; at upper center, in graphite "Roy"; at lower left, upside down, stamped in black ink, "William John Hill"; below this, also upside down, in graphite, "G Hill/ upper (?) 48"; and at lower right, in graphite, "48 (inscribed in a circle)".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and "LVG", (Strasbourg lily).
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and "LVG", (Strasbourg lily).
Associated names
Hill, William John, former owner.
Turner, Nicholas, 1947- former owner.
Turner, Jane, 1956- former owner.
Turner, Nicholas, 1947- former owner.
Turner, Jane, 1956- former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 407.
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Century Drawings
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