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

The Dying Seneca in His Bath

Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640

The Dying Seneca in His Bath

13 7/15 x 7 7/8 inches (342 x 200 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk (original edge of basin just below knees), some corrections in white (especially on the figure's left arm); touches of red chalk (on the loincloth and water in basin); over graphite (in lion's head and in suggestion of profile lion's head at right side of basin), on paper; outlines incised with the stylus; verso rubbed with black chalk for transfer.
I, 234b

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

Notes
Watermark: two opposed "C's" embracing the cross of Lorraine, surmounted by a crown (cf. Heawood 2888-98).
Study, in reverse, for the engraving by Cornelis Galle the Elder (1576-1650), published in "L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera quae exstant omnia", edited by I. Lipsius, Antwerp, 1615.
Figure (Seneca) from the Munich painting, Death of Seneca.
Associated names
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
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. 150-152, no. 317, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department