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 Fishermen at the Water's Edge and Ruins of the Aurelian Walls of Rome in the Distance

In the manner of Jan Both
1618?-1652

Landscape with Fishermen at the Water's Edge and Ruins of the Aurelian Walls of Rome in the Distance

10 9/16 x 10 1/2 inches (269 x 265 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
III, 191a

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right corner, in dark brown ink, "JB(in ligature)oth". Inscribed on the verso, in graphite: diagonally in center, "Madme ["me" in superscript] Blaisot / Paris Xmas 1877"; and below this, in another hand, also diagonally, "Collection Donnadieu".
Associated names
Donnadieu, Alcide, approximately 1791-1861, former owner.
Chapman, John, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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Department