Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
1621-1674
Achilles and Briseis
ca. 1640
6 15/16 x 11 3/16 inches (176 x 284 mm)
Quill and reed pens and brown ink, brown wash, rubbed in some areas with the finger or thumb, some gray wash (later?), on paper; extraneous touches of oxidized white.
I, 184
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining with fiber optic light.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso of the lining, in graphite: at upper center, "17"; and at lower right, "Achilles, &c".
Associated names
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, 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, 184, repr. (as 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. 75.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 75.
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