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Willem van Mieris
1662-1747
Apollo Slaying the Python (?): Ovid, "Metamorphoses", I:438-51
1690
Black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (116 x 159 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 234
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Signed and dated at lower center, in black ink, "W.V M. 1690". Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in black ink, "W.M. 1845".
Watermark: Shield, surmounted by a crown, fragment of top.
Provenance:
William Mayor (d. 1874), London (Lugt 2799); Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798-1886), London (no mark; see Lugt 2234); his anonymous sale, Frankfurt, Prestel, 6 December 1888, lot 74; Jeffrey Whitehead, London (see under Lugt 2799); his sale ["Property of a Gentleman"], London, Christie's, 13 May 1903, part of lot 138 (bought in for £1.15.0); 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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Associated names:
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Roupell, Robert Prioleau, 1798-1886, former owner.
Whitehead, Jeffrey, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, 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, III, 234, 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. 398.
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