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Cornelis van Poelenburch
1594 or 95-1667
Shepherd Approaching a Sleeping Nymph
Red chalk on paper; framing line in red chalk.
4 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches (113 x 206 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Markus Family in memory of Frits Markus.
2001.30
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Watermark: none.
The drawing is closely related to a small painting on copper by van Poelenburch of a "Satyr Approaching a Sleeping Nymph" in the collection at Charlecote Park (National Trust).
Inscription:
Numbered on the verso: at lower right, in brown ink, "No 389"; along left edge (turned sideways), in graphite, "138-6032-5"; and at lower left, also in graphite, "Poelenburgh 7".
Provenance:
Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrsheim (Lugt 2879); possibly his sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 25-6 May 1903, lot 389; acquired from Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London.
Associated names:
Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Maximilian von, Freiherr, former owner.
Markus family, donor.
Bibliography:
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 200.
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