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Christ before Pilate

Netherlandish School
16th century

Christ before Pilate

4 1/2 x 3 1/8 inches (114 x 80 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, with opaque lead white, on gray prepared paper.
III, 130

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of lining, at upper right, in brown ink, "Barnard / 1787"; at center of lower edge, in another hand, in brown ink, remnants of letters, "PI". On verso of mount, Richardson's pressmarks, in brown ink, "Q 53 / AA. 32 / A #25 / J [or "T"]e.45 / A. #52 / C".
Associated names
Anonymous, German School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Barnard, John, d. 1784, 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. 6, no. 6, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 130, repr. (as German School)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department