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.

Cavalry Engagement

Dirk Maas
1659-1717

Cavalry Engagement

7 1/16 x 11 9/16 inches (179 x 294 mm)
Black and red chalk, watercolor in gray, brown, blue, orange, yellow and green, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
1983.31

Purchased as the gift of Jack Rudin.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right, in brown ink, "D: Maas". Inscribed on the verso, in brown ink: at lower left, by Ploos van Amstel, "Dirk Maas f. / Geb: Haarlem 1656 / discipel van Berghem e Huchtenburg / h. 7d / b. 11 1/2 d"; and in lower left corner, "ha".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis within a shield, surmounted by a crown, over 4 and letters "WR" and cursive "AJ", (Strasbourg lily), (Heawood, no. 1786: Holland?, c. 1690).
Associated names
Rowlands, Peter, former owner.
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis, 1726-1798, former owner.
Rudin, Jack, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 273-274.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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Department