Jacob Jordaens
1593-1678
Design for One of the Works of Mercy: "Give and it will be given to you": Luke 6:38
11 5/16 x 13 1/2 inches (286 x 344 mm)
Red and black chalk, some heightening in white chalk, brown and gray wash, contours of the figures partially strengthened with pen and brown ink, on paper; paper variously extended and pieced by the artist on all four sides; laid on heavy mount, the edges tinted with watercolor and occasionally worked in graphite, probably by a later hand, to blend with the colors of the design; framing line in brown ink.
III, 168
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at the lower center, in brown ink, "Luce 6 geeft V sal gegeuen worden"; farther below in cartouche, "Luce 6 ver 37 Geeft en V sal / gegeuen worden. Een volle wtgeschude / Maet". Inscribed by another hand, at lower left, in brown ink, "J. Jordaens". On verso, in large script at upper center, in graphite, "Jordaens / No ["o" in superscript]. 14"; in an old hand at upper right, "J. Jordaens / du Cabinet Marriette"; below this, in a later hand, "No - not Marriette / the M too large. / FNS" (?); at lower right, in still another hand, "not Sensier" (?); at center, in green-blue ink illegible large oval stamp. On old mount, in graphite, Madme ["me" in superscript] Blaisot / Paris - 1877."
Associated names
Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1739-1802, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865, former owner.
Mount Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888, former owner.
Ashley, Evelyn, 1836-1907, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865, former owner.
Mount Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888, former owner.
Ashley, Evelyn, 1836-1907, 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, 168.
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. 133, no. 287, repr.
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. 133, no. 287, repr.
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