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.

Cattle and Sheep near an Arched Bridge

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.
Associated names
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, 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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department