Maarten de Vos

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Maarten de Vos

1532-1603

A Fête

Pen and brown ink and wash, traces of graphite, on two pieces of paper joined together; traces of framing line in brown ink.

10 5/8 x 17 9/16 inches (269 x 446 mm)

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

III, 136

Notes:

Watermark: None visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left corner, in graphite, "C...iaso [Cambiaso]"; on verso of mount, at lower center, in black chalk, "Federigo Zuccaro (crossed out)"; below this, in another hand, "M. Devos."; numbered at right, in red chalk, "845".

Provenance:

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:

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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. 111, no. 245, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, no. 136, repr.

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