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Study for a Portrait of a Woman and Child

Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641

Study for a Portrait of a Woman and Child

ca. 1634
15 15/16 (left edge) x 13 1/4 inches (404 x 336 mm); 20 11/16 inches (526 mm) at highest point
Black and white chalk on gray-blue paper.
III, 180

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through cardboard mount.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at center of Richardson mount, in his hand, in brown ink, "Van Dyck"; on verso of mount, in graphite, "15264".
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Hudson, Thomas, 1701-1779, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Tuinen, Ilona van. Power and Grace : Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, page 23, fig. 11 (repr.)
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 180, 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. 123, no. 271 repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department