Retouched by Peter Paul Rubens

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Retouched by Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

The Holy Family with Mary and Martha

Pen and brown ink and wash, with extensive corrections in gray-white oil paint, on paper; traces of old framing line in brown ink.

11 7/16 x 7 7/8 inches (290 x 200 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

III, 135

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Watermark: none visible.
Drawing by Dürer's oldest disciple Hans Suess von Kulmbach, retouched by Rubens.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, German School, early 16th cent.

Inscription:

Numbered at lower right, in black ink, "66". On verso of old mount on which drawing is laid down, in graphite, at center, "100"; below "A. Van Cort".

Provenance:

Possibly John Barnard (no mark; see Lugt 1419); possibly his sale, London, Greenwood, 16-24 February 1787, lot 59 ("Adoration of the Shepherd [sic], by L. Kraanen, retouched by Rubens"; for £2.2.0); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Kulmbach, Hans von, approximately 1480-1522.
Anonymous, German School, active 16th century, Formerly attributed to.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, 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, 135.
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. 152, no. 318, repr.

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