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Jan Lievens
1607-1674
Four Great Oak Trees
Quill and reed pen and brown ink, on paper; triple framing line in brown ink (twice) and graphite.
8 3/4 x 14 11/16 inches (223 x 373 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 186
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Watermark: none visible through lining with fiber optic light.
There are two other versions of differing dimensions of this woodland scene, one in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and the other in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Provenance:
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:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, 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, 186, 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. 126.
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