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.

Cattle and Cowherd with Two Shepherdesses, One on a Donkey

Copy after Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem
1620-1683

Cattle and Cowherd with Two Shepherdesses, One on a Donkey

6 7/8 x 11 inches (174 x 279 mm)
Red chalk on paper; framing line in red chalk wash.
III, 204

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at upper right, "75-8/a"; at center, "110"; and at lower right corner, "N. Berchem".
Associated names
Whitehead, Jeffrey, 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, 204, repr. (as Berchem).
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department