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.

Decorative Urn in a Park

Isaac de Moucheron
1667-1744

Decorative Urn in a Park

9 13/16 x 5 3/4 inches (248 x 146 mm)
Pen and brown ink, point of brush in gray ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in gray ink.
1991.34

Gift of George and Maida Abrams.

Notes
A nearly identical urn appears in a signed painting by Moucheron in the collection of A.J.E. Cranstoun, Corehouse. In the painting, the medallion, which is left blank in the drawing, is filled with a relief depicting the "Rape of Europa".
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at lower left, "LEGU"; at lower right, "R"; below this, in another hand, "D305D"; and below this, in still another hand, "LH. LHR N 13B".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and "WR" and cursive letters "ll", (Strasbourg lily).
Associated names
Abrams, George, former owner.
Abrams, Maida, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 402.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department