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.

Pastoral Landscape with Children Making Music for Their Mother

Francesco Zuccarelli
1702-1788

Pastoral Landscape with Children Making Music for Their Mother

1770
8 x 9 7/16 inches (204 x 239 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with red chalk wash, over black chalk, on paper prepared with a brown wash.
1986.3

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Rudolf Heinemann, Mr. P. Angus Morgan, and the Markus Foundation.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink below, "G. Fran.co [co in superscript] Zuccarelli fece.t / 1770"; inscribed on back of lining in pen and brown ink, "I have every reason to think that Zuccharelli gave this / to his friend Richard Wilson, the great Landscape Painter / when they were at Rome together, and that Wilson gave, or sold / it afterwards to his Patron my Grandfather B. Booth. J. Ford"; at left, in same hand, "see Wright's, Life of Wilson / ch. 1".
Associated names
Wilson, Richard, 1713-1782, former owner.
Booth, Benjamin, former owner.
Ford, James, Rev., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, donor.
Morgan, P. Angus, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 389.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department