Esaias van den Velde
1587-1630
Landscape with a Goatherd
6 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (160 x 194 mm)
Pen and two shades of brown ink, gray-brown wash and a touch of gray (right corner), over faint traces of graphite, on paper.
I, 117a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing may have been intended as a pendant to I, 117, dated 1616, due to the somewhat similar style, technique and format of the two sheets.
The drawing may have been intended as a pendant to I, 117, dated 1616, due to the somewhat similar style, technique and format of the two sheets.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist at lower left, in brown ink, "E.VV (in ligature)ELDE". Inscribed on the verso at lower right, in an old hand, in graphite, "4 - 6".
Associated names
Barnard, W. H., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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, I, 117a.
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. 50, 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. 306.
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. 50, 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. 306.
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