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Cattle, Goats, and Sheep with Three Herdsmen, one Drinking

Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem
1620-1683

Cattle, Goats, and Sheep with Three Herdsmen, one Drinking

1654
7 1/4 x 10 inches (185 x 255 mm)
Black chalk, brush and brown wash, on paper; outlines indented with a stylus; framing line in dark brown ink.
I, 138

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
The drawing was engraved, in reverse, by Johannes Visscher (1633-after 1692) as the third print in an etched and engraved series of four pastoral scenes (Hollstein, XLI, p. 68, under no. 97).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at upper left, in black chalk, "Berghem f. / 1654". Inscribed on the verso, at lower left corner, in graphite, "No. ["o" in superscript] 340.-150; at lower center, in another hand, in graphite, "No. 14[or 13]"; and farther below, in still another hand, in graphite, "12 H".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PD" (similar to Churchill, no. 6: 1654-79), Letters centered between chain lines, Letter "P' has solid top.
Associated names
Nieuwenhuys, C. J., 1799-1883, former owner.
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, I, 138, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 18.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department