Philips Koninck

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Philips Koninck
1619-1688
The Visitation: Luke 1:36-56
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, on light brown paper; framing line in brown ink.
10 7/16 x 8 inches (265 x 203 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 213a
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Inscribed at lower left, in brown ink, "Rembrant". Inscribed on the verso of the lining, at center, in graphite, "6".
Watermark: Foolscap with five points over "4" and three balls; Two balls on cap, short, thick head.

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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.
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Doomer, Lambert, 1622 or 1623-1700, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

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. 96, 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. 113.

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