Willem van Mieris
1662-1747
Apollo Slaying the Python (?): Ovid, "Metamorphoses", I:438-51
4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (116 x 159 mm)
Black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
III, 234
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
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.
Watermark: Shield, surmounted by a crown, fragment of top.
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.
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.
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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