Willem van Mieris
1662-1747
The Golden Age: Ovid, "Metamorphoses", I:89-150
1689
5 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (146 x 188 mm)
Point of brush and black ink and wash, over graphite, on laid paper; framing line in graphite.
I, 162
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at the lower right center, in black ink, "W.V. Mieris Fecit. Ano ["o" in superscript] 1689". Inscribed on the verso: at upper center, in large script, in brown ink, "Mansell"; at lower left corner, in fine script, in black ink, "James No ["o" in superscript] 1"; and at lower center, in graphite, "7".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "IV", between chain lines.
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "IV", between chain lines.
Associated names
Velde, Frans van de, former owner.
Mansell, former owner.
James, Miss, d. ca. 1891, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Mansell, former owner.
James, Miss, d. ca. 1891, 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, I, 162, 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. 397.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 397.
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