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.

Shepherd with Goats, Sheep, and Cattle at a Stream

Marco Ricci
1676-1729

Shepherd with Goats, Sheep, and Cattle at a Stream

14 1/2 x 20 7/8 inches (370 x 530 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper.
I, 77

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right of mount, in graphite, "7 Day Lot 43"; numbered on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, "36"; in graphite, "very fine and perfect M / Do [o superscript] Ph / Marco Ricci / True W".
Associated names
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, I, 77, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 27, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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Department