Adriaen van de Velde

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Adriaen van de Velde

1636-1672

Three-quarter View of a Cow Resting, Facing Left

Red chalk on paper; framing line in brown ink, with gold border applied directly on paper of drawing.

5 1/8 x 7 7/16 inches (130 x 189 mm)

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

III, 225 (2)

Inscription:

Signed with initials at lower right, in faded brown ink, "A:V:V:".

Provenance:

Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London and Edinburgh (Lugt 1433); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 225(2), repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 124.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 299.

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing is one of six red chalk studies of cows by the artist owned by The Library.

Associated names:

Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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