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Gillis Neyts
1623-1687
Italianate Landscape with Vine-Covered Ruins and a Mill
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, on paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.
6 x 8 7/8 inches (153 x 225 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 193
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Watermark: none.
On mat with III, 193a.
Inscription:
Signed at lower right, in brown ink, "AE.neyts.f." Numbered on verso, in graphite, "7-19"; in a modern hand, "31".
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, 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, 193.
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. 136, no. 292, repr.
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