Jacob Jordaens
1593-1678
Veneration of the Eucharist. Verso: Nude Female Figures
8 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches (211 x 173 mm)
Point of brush and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk on paper; paper slightly extended by the artist at top and bottom; reinforced later with another small strip covering part of the Von Fries dry stamp; the lower edge of the robe of the bishop at the right is a later addition in graphite and black ink; laid down by the artist on two strips of heavier paper on which he had previously sketched the nude female figures in black chalk.
III, 169
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Drawing is preparatory for the altarpiece in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Drawing is preparatory for the altarpiece in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso by the artist, in brown ink, now concealed by later reinforcement, but visible with fiber-optic light: "5 1/4 elles brabant ... / 3 1/4 elles brabant breet".
Associated names
Fries, Moritz, Graf von, 1777-1826, 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
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 169.
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. 129, no. 281, 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. 129, no. 281, repr.
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