Frans Francken
1581-1642
The Lamentation
11 x 7 7/16 inches (280 x 189 mm)
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.
III, 142
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
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".
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.
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).
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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