Isaac de Moucheron
1667-1744
View of Rome with the Castel Sant'Angelo
1742
8 11/16 x 7 inches (220 x 178 mm)
Pen and brown and some black ink, gray wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 237a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over 4 and letters "LVG", (Strasbourg lily).
On the same mat as III, 237b.
On the same mat as III, 237b.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower center, in brown ink, "IM(in ligature)oucheron Fecit 1742". Inscribed on the verso, at center, in the hand of Ploos van Amstel, in graphite, "da stads mauer omtrent t Kastel Angelo buyte rome / I de Moucheron"; at lower left, in the same hand, also in graphite, "hoog 8 1/2 / bred 7dm"; at lower left corner, in brown ink, "I[or J?]: N 79"; and below, in graphite, "f a".
Associated names
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis, 1726-1798, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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, III, 237a.
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