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.

Family Group of Five in a Landscape with Birdcatchers

Pieter de Molijn
1595-1661

Family Group of Five in a Landscape with Birdcatchers

5 13/16 x 7 11/16 inches (148 x 196 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 166

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at upper right corner, in black chalk, "PM["P" in superscript, "M" in subscript]olyn. Inscribed on the verso, at lower center, in graphite, "2 / 50".
Watermark: Foolscap with five points. Upper fragment of head and neck, two balls on cap.
Associated names
Barnard, W. H., 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, 166, 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. 167.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department