Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A Riding School. Verso: faint compositional sketch, probably for a Mocking of Christ

John Vanderbank
1694-1739

A Riding School. Verso: faint compositional sketch, probably for a Mocking of Christ

1729
9 15/16 x 14 inches (252 x 356 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white chalk, over graphite, on paper; verso: red chalk.
1974.41

Purchased on the E.J. Rousuck Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Possibly related to the artist's "Twenty-five Actions of the Manage Horse...", London, 1729.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right in pen and brown ink: "Jho Vanderbank fecit 1729".
Associated names
Percy, Richard, Lord, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 184.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department