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Rocky Landscape with Fortified City on a Distant Promontory

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Jan van de Velde
1593-1641

Rocky Landscape with Fortified City on a Distant Promontory

4 7/8 x 4 inches (125 x 102 mm)
Pen and point of brush, brown ink, brown wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 46(1)

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 46(1).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at the upper right, in an old hand, in brown ink, "E.velde". On the verso: at lower center, in Destailleur's hand, in graphite, "E. Van de Velde"; and in the lower left corner, in brown ink, "8...1".
Associated names
Sophie, of France, Madame, daughter of Louis XV, 1734-1782, former owner.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department