Frans Francken

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Frans Francken

1581-1642

The Lamentation

Pen and brown ink and wash, and red wash, (chiefly to indicate Christ's wounds), opaque white (in Christ's face), over black chalk, on paper; framing line in black ink.

11 x 7 7/16 inches (280 x 189 mm)

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

III, 142

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Signed at lower right, "do [superscript 'o']. ffranck inv̄". Inscribed on verso, in graphite, at upper left corner, "Ex Riggall"; at upper center, "No [superscript o] 1246"; at lower center, "T Th"; in brown ink, at lower edge, "1833 WE 50x" and "F-Franck".

Provenance:

Paignon-Dijonval (1708-1792), Paris; his grandson, Charles-Gilbert, Vicomte Morel de Vindé (no mark; see Lugt 2520); the collection sold in 1816 to Samuel Woodburn; Thomas Dimsdale (Lugt 2426); William Esdaile (according to inscription on verso; not located in his 18-25 June 1840 sale); possibly Thomas Thane (cf. penciled initials on verso with Lugt 2461); Dr. Edward Riggall, London (according to inscription on verso; not identifiable in his sale, Sotheby's, 6-8 June 1901, unless as one of eight in lot 497, "A. Bloemart. Scriptural and other figure subjects; others by different artists"; to Fairfax Murray for £1.7.0); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1758-1823, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Thane, Thomas, 1782-1846, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, 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. 33, no. 59 (repr.).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 142, repr. (Francken, 1542-1616).

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