Ascribed to Jan Both
1618?-1652
Wayfarer on a Winding Road in an Italianate Landscape
7 11/16 x 7 5/16 inches (195 x 186 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 191
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right corner, in brown ink, "Bot[h]". Inscribed on the verso, in Esdaile's hand, in brown ink: at lower center, "WE(in ligature)sdaile"; at lower left corner, "1831 WE. N 40x" and "Both". Numbered in graphite: at upper center, "23b[or 6 or c]"; and at lower left corner, "900".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PR" (similar to Heawood, no. 3069: London); Letters centered between chain lines, touching at bottom serif. Letters "PR", placed between chain lines.
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PR" (similar to Heawood, no. 3069: London); Letters centered between chain lines, touching at bottom serif. Letters "PR", placed between chain lines.
Associated names
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
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, 191, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 39.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 39.
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