Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Judgment of Midas

Hendrik Goltzius
1558-1617

Judgment of Midas

1590
15 3/4 x 26 13/16 inches (400 x 681 mm)
Pen and brown ink, red-violet, brown, and gray watercolor, green opaque watercolor, with white opaque watercolor, on laid paper.
I, 228

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with monogram and dated at right, in brown ink, "HG." (interlaced) / Fecit / A [superscript]o 1590".
Associated names
MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Percy, John, 1817-1889, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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, I, 228.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 36, repr.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 69, repr.
The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, cat. by John Oliver Hand, J. Richard Judson, William W. Robinson, and Martha Wolff. Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art; and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1986-87, no. 56, pp. 159-61.
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, pp. 40-41, no. 66.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 32, p. 70-71.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department