Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

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Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

1621-1674

Achilles and Briseis

ca. 1640

Quill and reed pens and brown ink, brown wash, rubbed in some areas with the finger or thumb, some gray wash (later?), on paper; extraneous touches of oxidized white.

6 15/16 x 11 3/16 inches (176 x 284 mm)

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

I, 184

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining with fiber optic light.

Inscription:

Inscribed on the verso of the lining, in graphite: at upper center, "17"; and at lower right, "Achilles, &c".

Provenance:

Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), English officer (Lugt 549); his nephew George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-93), Warwick Castle (Lugt 2600); his sale, London, Christie's, 20-21 May 1896, lot 304 (as Rembrandt to Fairfax Murray for £15.0.0); 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.

Associated names:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, 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, 184, repr. (as 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. 75.

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