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Old Woman Seated, Holding a Book

Attributed to Abraham van Dyck
1635 or 1636-1672

Old Woman Seated, Holding a Book

5 15/16 x 5 3/8 inches (150 x 137 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray washes, some red chalk and opaque white, over black chalk, on paper.
I, 194

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Drawing is preparatory for painting of the same subject attributed to van Dyck in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at the lower left corner, probably a dealer's code, in graphite, "BdBo / ss ils.wok". Inscribed on the old mount underneath the drawing, in graphite, "Rembrandts Mother".
Associated names
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, Formerly attributed to.
Maes, Nicolaes, ca. 1634-1693, Formerly attributed to.
Pluym, Karel van der, 1625-72, Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Fokke, Simon, 1712-1784, former owner.
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, 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, introduction (n.p.), paragraph 3, and no. 194, repr. (as Rembrandt but related to a domestic scene by Nicolaes Maes).
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 122, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 71.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department