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.

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem
1620-1683

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

7 7/8 x 12 5/16 inches (200 x 313 mm)
Red chalk on paper; verso: a few pen trials in brown ink at lower center edge.
III, 206

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at upper center, in brown ink, "Berchem / ..." [illegible]; at lower right, twice in graphite, "17"; and at bottom right corner, in another hand, in brown ink, "No. ["o" in superscript]..." [obscured by glue stain in corner].
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "CD" (similar to Heawood, no. 61: [van de Velde drawing of ca. 1665-6 in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]), Letters placed on either side of one chain line, joined by bottom serif.
Associated names
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, 206, 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, no. 102, 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. 23.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department