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.

Rustic Cottage and Pine Trees near a Rocky Mountain Stream

Jacob van Ruisdael
1628 or 1629-1682

Rustic Cottage and Pine Trees near a Rocky Mountain Stream

7 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (196 x 233 mm)
Black chalk and gray wash on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 218

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing is directly related to the artist's exceptionally large painting of a "Waterfall", now in the Bute collection in Scotland.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at lower center, with a Colnaghi stock number, "11649"; and at lower left, "1860".
Associated names
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Habich, Edward, 1818-1901, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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, III, 218, repr.
Landscape Drawings & Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 77, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 262.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department