Adriaen van de Velde
1636-1672
Cattle and Sheep near an Arched Bridge
7 7/16 x 9 7/16 inches (189 x 239 mm)
Brush and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 152
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in black ink, "A: Van de Velde". On the verso, in graphite, at upper left, "a.466"; and at lower left, "G.uow / ftd / de twee".
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points over "4" and three balls.
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points over "4" and three balls.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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, I, 152, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 294.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 294.
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