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Flemish School
18th century
Jacob's Dream. Verso: Half-Length Draped Figure
3 13/16 x 5 1/8 inches (97 x 130 mm)
Pen and brown ink, black chalk, on paper tinted light brown; framing line in brown ink.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 41(1)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 41(1).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Recueil de Dessins folio 41(1).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in black ink, "A. Van Dyck".
Associated names
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
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. 116, no. 256, repr.
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