Pieter Pourbus
1524-1584
Virgin and Child Enthroned between St. Luke and St. Eloy
1552
11 13/16 x 10 1/4 inches (300 x 260 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
II, 78
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: (visible through lining, with fiber-optic light): tankard, with two bands, letters, and trefoil (variant of Briquet 12631-32; cf. also 12724).
After a banner painted by Lancelot Blondeel in 1545 for the Guild of Painters and Saddlers of Bruges.
After a banner painted by Lancelot Blondeel in 1545 for the Guild of Painters and Saddlers of Bruges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated at the base of the throne, by the artist, in pen, "1552".
Associated names
Blondeel, Lancelot, 1498-1561, Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, 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. 52, no. 85.
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