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Jan de Bray
ca. 1627-1697
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes
1663
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
4 9/16 x 5 11/16 inches (116 x 144 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 143
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Drawing is a preparatory sketch for the 1664 painting of the same subject now in the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw.
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "JDB(in ligature)ray 1663". Inscribed on the old mount at lower left, in graphite, "del(?) Jan de Bray". Numbered on the verso of the mount, in graphite, at upper left corner, "191"; and at lower left corner, "292".
Provenance:
Van Parijs (ca. 1789-1839), Brussels (his "No 385" within his stamp on the decorated mount; Lugt 2531); 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:
Van Parijs, ca. 1789-1839, 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, I, 143, repr.
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