Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Study for Portrait of a Woman

Circle of Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641

Study for Portrait of a Woman

12 15/16 x 8 3/4 inches (328 x 222 mm)
Black and white chalk on gray-blue paper; traces of framing line in graphite.
III, 181

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of mount at upper center, in brown ink, "No 25"; at upper left center, in graphite, "166"; at upper right center, "Lot 767 = / m/s".
Associated names
Spencer, Earl, 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, III, 181.
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. 127, no. 276, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department