Netherlandish School
16th century
Battle Scene
8 11/16 x 15 7/8 inches (205 x 402 mm)
Pen and brown ink; a few touches of gray-brown wash, perhaps added later, on paper.
III, 134
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: sun with light rays surmounted by a crown (cf. Briquet 13911).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in graphite, "6B"[or "b/3"]; at lower right, in brown ink, "L. Craane". On verso, at upper left, in graphite, "1004"; somewhat below, "287"; at lower left corner, "Pe..."; at lower right, "6/2" ["2" subscript], and below, "L. Cranach"; at lower left, in Esdaile's hand, in brown ink, "Bot at Daulby Sale-Aug. 16 1799 / Lot 6-2"; in left corner, in another hand, in brown ink, "Lucas Craane".
Associated names
Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553, Formerly attributed to.
Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Jacob, 1472?-1533, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Daulby, Daniel, former owner.
Vernon, T., former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Jacob, 1472?-1533, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Daulby, Daniel, former owner.
Vernon, T., former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, 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. 6, no. 5, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 134, repr. (as Lucas Cranach)
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 134, repr. (as Lucas Cranach)
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