School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

St. Mark Preaching

1672

Pen and brown ink and wash, rubbed in some areas with the finger, some corrections in opaque lead white, on paper.

7 15/16 x 7 1/8 inches (202 x 181 mm)

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

I, 206

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The drawing is freely copied from a sheet formerly attributed to Carpaccio (1460/6[?]-1525-6), but more plausibly associated with Giovanni Bellini's (1431/6[?]-1516) pupil Lattanzio da Rimini (fl. 1492-1524) in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House.

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Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (similar to Heawood, no. 429). Rampant lions, crown with orb, three stacked "X"s.

Provenance:

Possibly Hendrik Busserus (1701-81), Amsterdam; possibly his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley...Maarszen, 21ff. October 1782, Album 31, lot 2116: "Twee stuks, een Predikenden Monnik, en een Historiele Teekening, geteekend als boven, in de manier van dezelven [i.e. Rembrandt]" (bt. with lots 2114 and 2115 for 2.5 fl.); 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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Lattanzio, da Rimini, active 1492-1524, Copy after.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (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, 206, repr. (as Rembrandt).
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. 79, repr. (as school of Rembrandt).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 245.

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