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Allegory of War

Gérard de Lairesse
1640-1711

Allegory of War

12 6/16 x 17 7/16 inches (320 x 443 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, pen and black ink and wash, and gray-blue wash, over red chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
1959.21

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (signed?) at lower left, in black ink, "Gerard Lairesse". On the verso of the old lining, at upper left, in the hand of van der Marck Ægzn, in graphite, "Een Zinnebeld door / Gerard De Lairesse / N. 570... / te Amst. in Sept 1766[?] / /... / ... / ... / ..." [computations]; at upper right corner, in a different hand, in black ink, "partie du No ["o" in superscript] / 185 / 9 desseins"; below and to the left of this, in the same hand, "a ce no ["o" in superscript] 18 de plus"; in the lower right corner, the Colnaghi stock number, in graphite, "A 19170"; below this, in an older hand, in graphite, "£0.18.0"; below this, in brown ink," /20"; and at lower center, in graphite, "Lag[?] en geld".
Associated names
Marck, Johan van der, 1707-1772, former owner.
Bibliography
A review of acquisitions, 1949-1968 / Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : The Library, 1969, p. 152.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Tenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960, p. 57.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department