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).
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.
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.
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