Jacob Cats
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Jacob Cats
1741-1799
Cows and Sheep Watering and Resting near a Cottage, the Herdsman Dozing
1795
Brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
7 11/16 x 10 3/16 inches (195 x 259 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 241
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Watermark: none.
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Signed, dated, and inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in brown ink, "667 / J: Cats inv 1795". Inscribed below this, in Esdaile's hand, in brown ink, "1801 WE P 80 .N 192x". Numbered above left, in graphite, "1558" and "1106".
Provenance:
William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (Lugt 2617); his sale, London, Christie's, 18-25 June 1840, lot 1184: "Cows watering near a cottage, bistre"; 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.
Associated names:
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, 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, 241.
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