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Woman Carrying a Torch

Philips Koninck
1619-1688

Woman Carrying a Torch

5 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches (144 x 117 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.
I, 213b

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at lower center, by the artist, in red chalk, "p. koning"; at right, in graphite, "Cat / Flinck"; and numbered at center, also in graphite, "31661".
Associated names
Flinck, Nicolaes Anthonis, 1646-1723, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 118.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department