Pieter de Witte
ca. 1548-1628
Five Studies of Figures Seen from Below. Verso (by another hand): Half-Length Figure of a Man in Armor and a Plumed Hat
6 7/8 x 6 3/16 inches (174 x 158 mm)
Red and black chalk, pen and black ink, squared in red chalk, on laid paper.
IV, 57
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: cross on three mounts, in a quatrefoil within a circle (cf. Briquet 1242).
Associated names
Forli, Melozzo da, 1438-1494, Formerly attributed to.
Sarto, Andrea del, 1486-1530, Formerly attributed to.
Morone, Domenico, 1442-1517, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Sarto, Andrea del, 1486-1530, Formerly attributed to.
Morone, Domenico, 1442-1517, Formerly attributed to.
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, IV, 57.
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. 113-114, no. 251.
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. 113-114, no. 251.
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