Aert Schouman
1710-1792
Horned Poppy
16 11/16 x 10 13/16 inches (425 x 275 mm)
Watercolor and gray wash, over graphite, on paper.
1984.33
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Platt.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite: at upper left, "Af"(or At?); at lower center, "papaver cornuculatus"; at lower right, "gele boompapaver" (partially erased).
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4", (Strasbourg lily), (see Heawood, nos. 1829 and 1835), fragment.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4", (Strasbourg lily), (see Heawood, nos. 1829 and 1835), fragment.
Associated names
Platt, Geoffrey, donor.
Platt, Geoffrey, Mrs., donor.
Platt, Geoffrey, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 379.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 414.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 414.
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