Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Six studies after Antique Gems and Coins: Alexander the Great with a Lion Skin
2 5/16 x 2 inches (59 x 50 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in black ink.
III, 162:5
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
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Watermark: none.
Six on one mat.
Formerly attributed to School of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640.
Drawing is one of six studies at the Morgan Library that was probably intended to illustrate a planned but never completed text on antique gems and coins by Rubens and the French scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637).
Six on one mat.
Formerly attributed to School of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640.
Drawing is one of six studies at the Morgan Library that was probably intended to illustrate a planned but never completed text on antique gems and coins by Rubens and the French scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637).
Associated names
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Dijonval, Charles-Gilbert, Vicomte Morel de Vindé, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Dijonval, Charles-Gilbert, Vicomte Morel de Vindé, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 162:5.
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. 149, no. 315, repr.
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. 149, no. 315, repr.
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