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Caritas

Jan de Bisschop
1628-1671

Caritas

14 5/16 x 9 7/16 inches (365 x 239 mm)
Brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1997.17

Gift of Anne-Marie Logan.

Notes
The prototype for the present composition is Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Caritas, now in the collection of the Counts of Schönborn, Pommersfelden.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at upper left, in blue ink, "10".; next to this, in red chalk, "4"; at center, in black chalk, "B"; at lower center, in an eighteenth-century(?) hand, in black ink, "Raphael"; numbered at lower right, in brown ink, "40s" ("s" in superscript); and at bottom center, unidentified collector's mark.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, above 4 and letters "WR", (Strasbourg lily).
Associated names
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, Copy after.
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Barnard, John, d. 1784, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Fröhlich-Bume, L. (Lili), former owner.
Logan, Anne-Marie S., 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. 31.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department