Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Portrait of a Woman, Facing Three-quarters Left, in an Oval

Johannes Thopas

Portrait of a Woman, Facing Three-quarters Left, in an Oval

1654
6 5/16 x 5 7/16 inches (160 x 138 mm)
Graphite and stumping, gray wash, with some opaque white in the background of the oval, and touches of gum arabic, on vellum.
I, 153

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

Notes
The drawing forms a pendant with an oval portrait drawing of a man, also signed and dated 1654, in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (Inv. no. 5674).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated, in brown ink, at lower left, "Johannes Thopas"; and at lower right, "Fecit 1654". Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at lower center, "22"; at lower right, "fr 50-".
Associated names
Piek, W. F., 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, 153, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department