Adriaen van de Velde
1636-1672
Side View of a Cow Resting, Facing Left
4 11/16 x 6 9/16 inches (119 x 166 mm)
Red chalk on paper; framing line in brown ink, with gold border applied directly on paper of drawing.
III, 224 (2)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing is one of six red chalk studies of cows by the artist owned by The Library.
Both this drawing and III, 225 (1) are related to a quick chalk sketch, apparently from life, in the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin.
The drawing is one of six red chalk studies of cows by the artist owned by The Library.
Both this drawing and III, 225 (1) are related to a quick chalk sketch, apparently from life, in the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at left, in faded brown ink, A.V.Vel[de].
Associated names
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
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
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 224(2), repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 124.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 302.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 124.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 302.
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