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 outside a Besieged City

Circle of Adam Frans van der Meulen
1632-1690

Cavalry outside a Besieged City

16 x 23 3/4 inches (403 x 590 mm)
Black and red chalk on paper; outlines incised with the stylus.
I, 249a

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

Notes
Watermark: sun face with thirteen rays; partly legible countermark with letters "IMI" separated by hearts within a cartouche (cf. Heawood 3898; Briquet under soleil).
Inscriptions/Markings
Lettered at lower left, in graphite, "VAN DER MEULEN". Inscribed on verso, at upper left, in an old hand, in graphite, "Vandermeulen No. 64"; in lower right corner, in graphite, "Vandermeulen"; numbered in left corner, "36".
Associated names
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 135, no. 291, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department