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Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Study for the Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
Pen and brown ink and wash, black chalk, on laid paper.
12 7/16 x 7 1/16 inches (315 x 178 mm)
Gift of Otto Manley.
1975.28
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Watermark: illegible fragment between chain lines, vertical stick, with trefoil over V?. Watermark, beta radiograph. fragment. 144719wm_1975_28_WM_beta.jpg
Inscription:
Inscribed by the artist, in brown ink, on cornice, "gout" (gold; formerly read as "hout" [wood]); below first capital, "goudt" (gold); on curtain, "Root" (red).
Provenance:
Mario Uzielli, Switzerland; Dr. Edmund Schilling, London (acquired in Paris); private collection, New York (acquired from Schilling in 1954).
Associated names:
Uzielli, Mario, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, 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. 139, no. 298, repr.
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