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The Holy Kinship

Frans Floris
1519 or 1520-1570

The Holy Kinship

9 15/16 x 12 1/2 inches (252 x 317 mm)
Point of brush and pen with black ink and wash, with opaque white, on paper tinted light ochre.
III, 190

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Fragment of the artist's monogram at lower left, in the pen and black ink of the design, "F ... ".
Associated names
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 32, no. 56, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 190, repr. (Egbert van Heemskerck)
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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Department