Abraham Bloemaert
1564-1651
Theagenes and Chariclea at the Pythian Games at Delphi
10 1/2 x 15 7/16 inches (266 x 392 mm)
Black chalk and pale brown wash, with white (original lead whites have been strengthened later with zinc whites), on paper; framing line in brown ink.
1961.26
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Notes
Watermark: rampant lion within a shield, surmounted by a crown (cf. Briquet 1925 for the general type).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at upper right, in graphite, "863".
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. 19, no. 32.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 133.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 133.
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