Jacob Cats
1741-1799
Herdsman and Shepherdess with their Animals on a Road at the Edge of a Wheat Field
1793
10 9/16 x 14 1/8 inches (269 x 358 mm)
Pen and brown and black ink, gray and brown wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 165
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
On the verso, signed and dated at lower left, in brown ink, "J: Cats inv et fec / 1793"; inscribed above this, in another hand, in graphite, "S.K."; numbered at lower left corner, also in graphite, "50"; and at lower right, in graphite, "4.".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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, 165, repr.
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