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Leonard Bramer
1596?-1674
Mounted Herald Blowing his Trumpet in a Courtyard. Verso: Figure Studies
Black ink and wash, with opaque white, some architectural details in pen, on blue paper; verso: black chalk.
22 1/16 x 17 9/16 inches (560 x 447 mm)
Purchased on the Edwin Herzog Fund.
1986.65
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Watermark: none.
The studies in black chalk on the verso are by another, later hand.
Inscription:
Inscribed at upper left edge (turned sideways), in brown ink, "n 016"; and illegible inscription at lower left, in black ink, "both(?)".
Provenance:
Acquired from Charles Roelofsz. B.V., Amsterdam.
Bibliography:
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 41.
Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674: A Painter of the Night, edited by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Milwaukee, 1992, cat. 50, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 324.
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