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St. Mark Preaching

School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

St. Mark Preaching

1672
7 15/16 x 7 1/8 inches (202 x 181 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, rubbed in some areas with the finger, some corrections in opaque lead white, on paper.
I, 206

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

Notes
The drawing is freely copied from a sheet formerly attributed to Carpaccio (1460/6[?]-1525-6), but more plausibly associated with Giovanni Bellini's (1431/6[?]-1516) pupil Lattanzio da Rimini (fl. 1492-1524) in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (similar to Heawood, no. 429). Rampant lions, crown with orb, three stacked "X"s.
Associated names
Lattanzio, da Rimini, active 1492-1524, Copy after.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 206, repr. (as Rembrandt).
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 79, repr. (as school of Rembrandt).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 245.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department