David Teniers
1610-1690
Sheet of Figure Studies
7 15/16 x 11 3/8 inches (202 x 288 mm)
Graphite, light brown and some gray wash, on paper; traces of a framing line gone over in black and another line in black added on the mount.
I, 124a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
The group of three Brouwer-like figures appears in the foreground of a picture by Lucas van Uden (1595-1672) in the National Gallery, London, in which the staffage was painted by Teniers in one of their occasional collaborations.
The group of three Brouwer-like figures appears in the foreground of a picture by Lucas van Uden (1595-1672) in the National Gallery, London, in which the staffage was painted by Teniers in one of their occasional collaborations.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered in lower left corner, in brown ink, "22". On verso, at lower left, in an old hand, in graphite, "380"; in brown ink, "H 1228" (?).
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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. 159, no. 333 repr.
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Century Drawings
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