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Unidentified Biblical Scene

Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert
1592 or 1593-1655

Unidentified Biblical Scene

9 5/8 x 14 7/16 inches (245 x 366 mm)
Brush and gray and gray-brown wash, over black chalk, with white chalk, on blue laid paper.
I, 170b

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
While the drawing's subject-matter continues to defy identification, it may represent "Bathsheba Receiving the News of Uriah's Death" (Kings II: 11).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower edge, in brown ink, "m".
Associated names
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. 157.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department