Netherlandish School
16th century
Victory of Pompey the Great over the Pirates
14 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (371 x 377 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray washes, on paper.
1979.15
Purchase.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Design for an unidentified tapestry.
Design for an unidentified tapestry.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in the upper border, in a cursive script, in brown ink, "Victoria Gnei pompei Adversus Sprartas (Sprartas crossed out and above it, in lighter brown ink, "Pyrates").
Associated names
Garnier, Louis-Remi, former owner.
Ravaison, former owner.
Laport, G. L., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Ravaison, former owner.
Laport, G. L., former owner.
Scholz, János, 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. 11, no. 16, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217-18 (Stradanus)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217-18 (Stradanus)
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