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.

Italianate Landscape with Flocks on a Road near a Ruin Footing a Mountain

Jan van der Meer
1656-1705

Italianate Landscape with Flocks on a Road near a Ruin Footing a Mountain

1687
11 1/2 x 16 3/16 inches (291 x 412 mm)
Black chalk, point of brush and black ink and wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 231

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right center, in black chalk, "J v der meer / de jonge 1687".
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points, over "4" and three balls (similar to Heawood, no. 2044: 1687), three balls are distorted, with top ball separated from lower two, cap with two balls.
Associated names
Vermeer, Jan, 1656-1705, Formerly attributed to.
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, 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, 231, 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. 151.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department