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.

Fair on the Ice

Jacob Cats
1741-1799

Fair on the Ice

1779
9 7/16 x 11 15/16 inches (239 x 303 mm)
Brush and dark brown and black ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in graphite.
III, 242

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated on the verso, at lower left, in black chalk, "J: Cats inv / 1779". Inscribed above this, in graphite, "W[or N]. 149- 21".
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, 242, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department