Abraham van Diepenbeeck
1596-1675
The Holy Family with St. Anne Holding the Child
9 5/8 x 13 7/16 inches (245 x 341 mm)
Brush and shades of black watercolor, with opaque white, over black chalk, the figures reserved against a gray prepared ground, on paper; incised with the stylus.
I, 246
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: two opposed "C's" embracing the cross of Lorraine, surmounted by a crown (cf. Heawood 2896: Amsterdam, 1644).
Drawing was engraved in reverse by Pieter de Jode the Younger (1604-1674).
Drawing was engraved in reverse by Pieter de Jode the Younger (1604-1674).
Associated names
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.
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, 246.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 119, no. 265 (repr.).
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 119, no. 265 (repr.).
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