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.

Peasant Youth Holding a Tankard

Attributed to Jan Miense Molenaar
approximately 1610-1668

Peasant Youth Holding a Tankard

11 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches (285 x 183 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
1983.96

Purchased as the gift of Frits Markus, The Hon. Harry F. Oppenheimer, and Paul W.L. Russell.

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Interlaced letters "CC", surmounted by an open crown, with double cross in center (similar to Heawood, no. 2896: Amsterdam, 1644).
Associated names
Anonymous, Dutch School, 17th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Saftleven, Cornelis, 1607-1681, Formerly attributed to.
Markus, Frits, donor.
Oppenheimer, Harry F., donor.
Russell, Paul W. L., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 255 (as Dutch school, formerly attributed to Cornelis Saftleven, c. 1640-50).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 159.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department