Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
The Nativity
10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (271 x 196 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; outlines incised with the stylus; double framing line in brown ink.
III, 140
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: None.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at center, in brown ink, "M. devos"; at upper left and elsewhere, in graphite, "956"; at upper center, "FS"; at center, "F.4.".
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
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 140, repr.
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. 246, repr.
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. 246, repr.
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