Abraham van Diepenbeeck
1596-1675
Fountain of Elijah
11 13/16 x 7 3/4 inches (300 x 196 mm)
Pen and brown and black ink, gray-brown wash, over black chalk, with white opaque watercolor, and also corrected with opaque white (face of saint immediately to right of base of fountain), on laid paper; outlines incised with the stylus; traces of framing line in brown ink.
I, 246a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Drawing was faithfully engraved in reverse by Peeter Clouwet (1629-1670) who was employed to translate Van Diepenbeeck's designs into engravings.
Formerly attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).
Drawing was faithfully engraved in reverse by Peeter Clouwet (1629-1670) who was employed to translate Van Diepenbeeck's designs into engravings.
Formerly attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower center, in black ink, monogram ("V" superimposed on "A") "Diepenbeeck.F."; inscribed on verso of lining, in brown ink, "PNo" ["o" superscript].
Associated names
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 266, repr.
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