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.
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.
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.
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.
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