Pieter de Molijn

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Pieter de Molijn

1595-1661

Herdsmen around a Fire at Night

1655

Black chalk, gray wash, with opaque white, on paper.

5 13/16 x 7 11/16 inches (148 x 196 mm)

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

III, 167g

Inscription:

Signed and dated by the artist, at upper right, in black chalk, PM ["P" in superscript], "M" in subscript]olyn / 1655". Inscribed on the old mount, in brown ink, "uyt het Cabinet van de Hr: Bernardus Hagelis N ̊31".
Watermark: Shield with fleur-de-lis, over 4 and letters "WR", fragment (similar to Churchill, no. 403: 1686).

Provenance:

Bernardus Hagelis; his sale, Amsterdam, de Leth, 8 March 1762, lot 808: "ein Maanligje" (for 5.5 fl.); Antony Sijdervelt; his sale, Amsterdam, de Winter...IJver, 23 April 1766, lot 128 (with lot 127 to Ijver for 17.10 fl.); Daniël de Jongh Azn (d. 1810 or before), Rotterdam; his sale, Rotterdam, van Rijp...van Leen, 26 March 1810, Album F, lot 37; Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London (no mark; see Lugt 2584); his sale, London, Christie's, 16-27 June 1854, lot 912: "a landscape-moon and fire light; and the companion"; 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.

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Associated names:

Hagelis, Bernardus, 1680-1762, former owner.
Sijdervelt, Antony, -1766, former owner.
Jongh Azn, Daniël de, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 54, 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. 162.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 162.

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