Pieter Mulier
1637-1701
Two Recumbent Goats and a Third Standing
7 1/2 x 9 inches (191 x 229 mm)
Red chalk on paper.
III, 219a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
The two animals on the left of the sheet appear, with minor changes, in a picture by Mulier of the "Annunciation to the Shepherds", formerly on the London art market (Sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 July 1977).
Formerly attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos, 1631-1685.
Formerly attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos, 1631-1685.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center, in brown ink, "Tempesta". On the verso, at upper right, in black chalk, "...09".
Watermark: Trefoil above letters, possibly "C L".
Watermark: Trefoil above letters, possibly "C L".
Associated names
Roos, Johann Heinrich, 1631-1685, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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. 171.
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