Netherlandish School

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16th century

Venus, with Cupid, Spied Upon by a Satyr

Pen and brown ink, blue wash, lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper.

6 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (155 x 197 mm)

Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.

1981.38

Notes:

Watermark: Indecipherable, possibly circle with something inside. Watermark, beta radiograph.

Inscription:

Inscribed (by the artist?) at upper center, in brown ink, "ano 92". On verso, in graphite, "150".

Provenance:

Dr. Curt Glaser, former director of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; his widow, Maria Milch Glaser, later Mrs. Ernest Ash, New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., 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. 16, no. 27, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 261-62 (German School)

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