Walls, Towers, and Gates of Amsterdam
Jacob Savery
(Dutch, about 1565 to 1570–1602 or 1603)
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
(Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
about 1590–1600
Medium/TechniquePen in two shades of brown ink over black chalk on paper
DimensionsSheet: 18.4 x 30.5 cm (7 1/4 x 12 in.)
Framed: 31.8 x 43.8 cm (12 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)
Framed: 31.8 x 43.8 cm (12 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)
Credit LineLouis Curtis Fund
Accession number38.769
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ProvenancePrince Wladimir Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (b. 1875 - d. 1941; Lugt 2602d); by 1938, Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York; 1938, purchased from Seligmann by the MFA, for $3500. (Accession Date: April 1938)
Christoffel Jegher