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Jan van Goyen
1596-1656
Two Panoramic Views of Woudrichem (?), from the South (Upper View) and the Southeast (Lower View)
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing line around each view in brown ink.
3 5/16 x 10 11/16 inches (85 x 270 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Markus Family in memory of Frits Markus.
2001.5
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Watermark: Church with spire, with a serpent entwined around a spire with cross (similar to Heawood, no. 3774: Middelburg, 1633), fragment.
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A.W.M. Mensing (1866-1936), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, Mensing & Fils (Frederik Muller & Cie), 27-9 April 1937, lot 154 (as Aelbert Cuyp): "Deux profils superposés de Dordrecht" (to "Beets"); Dr. Nicolaas Beets, Amsterdam; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem (no mark; see Lugt S. 1023a); his descendants; acquired at their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2001, lot 16, repr. (in color).
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Cuyp, Aelbert, 1620-1691, Formerly attributed to.
Mensing, Ant. W. M., 1866-1936, former owner.
Beets, Nicolaas, 1878-1963, former owner.
Koenigs, Franz, former owner.
Bibliography:
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 40, p. 88-89.
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