Jacob de Gheyn
1565-1629
St. Mary Magdalene Seated, Adoring the Cross
9 5/16 x 6 9/16 inches (236 x 166 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray and blue washes, on paper.
1983.88
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of the Cremer Foundation, Elizabeth de Cuevas, Mrs. James H. Ripley, and Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right center, in the same brown ink as the design, "J.D. Geyn in"; inscribed at lower left, in a later hand, in graphite, "No-19...". On verso, at upper left, in graphite, "No-125"; at lower left, in brown ink, "N 3.4/"; at lower right, "A/Z", and below, "Ba".
Watermark: Horn within a shield over letters "PN" (cf. Briquet 7867).
Watermark: Horn within a shield over letters "PN" (cf. Briquet 7867).
Associated names
Trower, John, former owner.
Trower, A. G., former owner.
Cuevas, Elizabeth de, donor.
Ripley, James H., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., Mrs., donor.
Trower, A. G., former owner.
Cuevas, Elizabeth de, donor.
Ripley, James H., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., Mrs., donor.
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. 34, no. 60.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 262.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 262.
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