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Copy after Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641
Portrait of a Man, Three-Quarter Length
Black and white chalk on brown paper; framing line in dark brown ink.
16 5/8 x 13 1/2 inches (422 x 343 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 182a
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Watermark: none.
This is an accurate copy after Van Dyck's "Portrait of an Unknown Man" in the Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right corner, in brown ink, "96".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
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. 127, no. 277, repr.
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