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.

English Daisies

Aert Schouman
1710-1792

English Daisies

15 13/16 x 9 13/16 in (402 x 250 mm)
Watercolor on paper; traces of framing line in black chalk at lower edge.
1983.10

Gift of Sidney Katz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right, by the artist, in graphite, "Bellis prométorii bonae fec: 1744". On the verso, in graphite, at lower left, "Aert Schouman 1700-1792 1761"; below this, in an older hand, probably that of the artist, "bellis prométorii bonae feci 17 7/8 44". Formerly accompanied by an old catalogue label pasted on the mount, "AERT SCHOUMAN / Deux aquarelles. - Narcisses et Marguérites. - Haut. 40, larg. 25 cm. / Une annotée et datée: 1744".
Watermark: Letters "I VILLEDARY".
Associated names
Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 299.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department