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Edward Pierce
ca. 1635-1695
Design for a Monument: Two Standing Men, One in Armor, Flanking a Tablet under a Canopy Supported by Putti
Pen and brown ink, brown and blue-gray wash, over faint traces of graphite, on paper; arch indicated by blind compass lines and various guide lines, vertical at left and center, and two horizontals through center; design silhouetted at top; cut down at sides.
11 1/16 (at highest point at center) x 9 3/8 inches (297 x 238 mm)
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1964.16
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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Flemish School, 18th cent.
Formerly attributed to Willem de Keyser.
Provenance:
John Waine, Brunswick Crescent, Hove; acquired from P. & D. Colnaghi, London (as attributed to Willem de Keyser; their no. "D 27656" on verso).
Associated names:
Anonymous, Flemish School, 18th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Keyser, Willem de, Formerly attributed to.
Waine, John, former owner.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 117, no. 261 (as formerly attributed to Anonymous Flemish School, late seventeenth century).
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