Jan de Bray
ca. 1627-1697
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes
1663
4 9/16 x 5 11/16 inches (116 x 144 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 143
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Drawing is a preparatory sketch for the 1664 painting of the same subject now in the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw.
Drawing is a preparatory sketch for the 1664 painting of the same subject now in the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw.
Inscriptions/Markings
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".
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.
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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Century Drawings
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