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St. Martin Dividing His Cloak. Verso: Feathers of the Tip of a Wing; Spherical Diagram

Jan van der Straet
1523-1605

St. Martin Dividing His Cloak. Verso: Feathers of the Tip of a Wing; Spherical Diagram

4 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches (105 x 66 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: Feathers of the Tip of a Wing: pen and brown ink, and black chalk; Spherical Diagram: pen and brown ink.
1979.14:8

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This is a preliminary sketch, in reverse, for the composition engraved by Adriaen Collaert (fig. 73, Hollstein IV, p. 203, no. 196).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, by the artist, in brown ink, "... / nude gioanni / Angele vestite".
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, 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. 57, no. 96, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department