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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Holy Family at the Foot of a Tree

Abraham Bloemaert
1564-1651

The Holy Family at the Foot of a Tree

9 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (241 x 182 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, olive-green wash, with white opaque watercolor, on paper tinted light pink-tan; lightly traced with the stylus.
I, 229

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at upper left of old mount, in graphite, "168".
Inscribed on verso of old mount, in three different hands, in graphite, "A true drawing and very good W / Bloemaert has been called the German Baroccio / True. has been engraved Ph".
Watermark: Serpent wrapped around staff, centered between chain lines. Lead white on drawing is visible in beta radiograph.
Associated names
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, I, 229, repr.
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. 18, no. 29, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department