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Copy after Jan Lievens
1607-1674
Landscape with Trees and Cottages and Boy Piping
Pen and faded brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
10 1/4 x 17 3/16 inches (260 x 436 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 186e
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Watermark: none.
The drawing is a coarse copy of a Lievens drawing in the British Museum, London.
Provenance:
Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Edinburgh and London (Lugt 1433); probably his sale ["Well-Known Amateur"], London, Christie's, 12-14 May 1902, lot 190; Charles Newton Robinson; by exchange in 1904 to Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York
Associated names:
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913
Robinson, Charles Newton, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, 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. 133.
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