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Bird-Catcher

Italian School

Bird-Catcher

11 3/8 x 5 11/16 inches (287 x 145 mm)
Black chalk on paper; traces of squaring in black chalk; framing line in graphite.
1976.1

Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of an anonymous donor, Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Netherlandish School.
Associated names
Anonymous, Netherlandish School, 17th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan, former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, donor.
Von Bülow, Claus, 1926-2019, donor.
Von Bülow, Martha Crawford, 1931-2008, donor.
Bibliography
Old Master Drawings of the 19th Century, Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, Summer 1975, no. 14, repr. (as "Dutch School - Study of a Court Jester").
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 270.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department