Jan van der Straet
1523-1605
Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples by Torchlight
5 13/16 x 4 1/8 inches (148 x 105 mm)
Pen, brown and vermilion ink, brown and dilute vermilion ink wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1979.14:5
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, by the artist, in brown ink, "America"; in a modern hand, in graphite, "No ["o" superscript] 417".
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, 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. 56, no. 93, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.
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Century Drawings
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