Josef Frans Nollekens
1702-1748
Two Women with Children at Play
8 7/8 x 13 9/16 inches (226 x 345 mm)
Red chalk, lightly stumped, on paper; framing line in graphite.
III, 99
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: illegible fragment of letter.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (signed?) at lower left, in red chalk,..."ns" (most of the word has been obliterated with a wet brush) / "in. [or "m."?] F. 1736". Inscribed on old mount, at upper right, in brown ink, "13"; at lower edge, in brown ink, crossed out in black ink, "Mercier"; below this, in another hand, in black ink, "J. Nollekens"; at left, in yet another hand, in black ink, "J. Nollekens 1736"; on verso of mount, at lower left corner, in red ink, "Lot 205".
Associated names
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, 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. 342 repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 99, repr. (J.F. Nollekens; with note that signature has been erased).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 99, repr. (J.F. Nollekens; with note that signature has been erased).
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