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Johann Georg Wille
1715-1808
A farm-yard
1762
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
6 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (165 x 264 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 105
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Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, at lower center, "J.G. Wille. 1762".
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, no. 105, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 58.
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