In the manner of Jan Gossaert
ca. 1478-ca. 1532
Design for a Reliquary or a Monstrance
6 5/8 x 3 5/16 inches (168 x 85 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
III, 127b
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: fragment showing two small shapes, like divided descender of the Gothic letter "P" (cf. Briquet 8608 etc.; last quater of the 15th century).
Associated names
Anonymous, German School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Johnstone, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Johnstone, former owner.
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. 44, no. 71, repr.
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