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Cimon and Iphigenia

Jacob Matham
1571-1631

Cimon and Iphigenia

1603-1604
11 11/16 x 15 13/16 inches (297 x 402 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on parchment.
III, 159

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

Notes
Subject taken from Bocaccio, "Decameron", Novella 5:1.
For a related engraving, by Matham, which depicts the composition in reverse and is significantly smaller in size, see Lena Widerkehr, The New Hollstein (Jacob Matham), no. 200.
Associated names
Duysel, Theodorus van, -1784, former owner.
Lagoy, Jean-Baptiste de Meryan, marquis de, 1764-1829, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Whitehead, Jeffrey, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 159.
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. 50, no. 80.
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