Josef Frans Nollekens
1702-1748
Five Men Seated amid Roman Ruins
13 3/8 x 17 1/16 inches (340 x 434 mm)
Black ink and wash, some light pink-brown wash, over graphite, on paper.
III, 101
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
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Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a shield, surmounted by a crown, with letters LVG below (cf. Heawod 1829).
Associated names
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, 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
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. 164, no. 343 repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912 III, 101, repr. (J. F. Nollekens).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912 III, 101, repr. (J. F. Nollekens).
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