Netherlandish School
17th century
Adoration of the Shepherds
1607
8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (206 x 168 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor in brown, shades of red, and some blue, on paper.
1980.76
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Bookman.
Notes
Watermark: hunting horn with a shield (cf. Heawood 2664-97).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with monogram at left center, in brown ink, "S" above "ATK"; dated at lower center, "1607 1/1 ["1" superscript] / ANNO."; and again at lower right, "1607"; inscribed at upper center, in pseudo Hebrew, and illegibly in scroll held by cherubs. On verso, in graphite, "V 47 and "Martin de Vos".
Associated names
Peltzer, Rudolf, former owner.
Mallmann, former owner.
Bookman, Arthur, former owner.
Bookman, Arthur, Mrs., former owner.
Bookman, George, former owner.
Bookman, George, Mrs., former owner.
Mallmann, former owner.
Bookman, Arthur, former owner.
Bookman, Arthur, Mrs., former owner.
Bookman, George, former owner.
Bookman, George, Mrs., 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. 14, no. 20, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 187 (Dutch School, early 17th century)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 187 (Dutch School, early 17th century)
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