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Three Deer in a Rocky Landscape with Wooded Hills in the Distance

Roelant Roghman
1627-1692

Three Deer in a Rocky Landscape with Wooded Hills in the Distance

5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (150 x 231 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
I, 172c

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing is possibly to be associated with the print series "Views of Italy" ("Illustrated Bartsch", 1979, V, nos. 25-32). No. 27 in this series, for example, also shows deer at the foot of a rocky cliff in the middle ground.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "Roelant Roghman".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department