Herman van Swanevelt
1603-1655
Visit of St. Antony the Great to St. Paul the Hermit
3 15/16 x 3 1/4 inches (100 x 83 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 214a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing and III-214c, as well as III-214b, were once together in the Wellesley collection, along with another drawing whose whereabouts are unknown, all attributed to Breenbergh and all once owned by Charles Fairfax Murray.
The drawing and III-214c, as well as III-214b, were once together in the Wellesley collection, along with another drawing whose whereabouts are unknown, all attributed to Breenbergh and all once owned by Charles Fairfax Murray.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, in graphite, at center right edge, "5 [in superscript] 82 ["82" in subscript]; at center, "Breemberg"; below this, "B 180"; and at lower right corner, "Wellesley Coll / 569-0417".
Associated names
Breenbergh, Bartholomeus, 1599?-1657, Formerly attributed to.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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. 284.
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Century Drawings
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