Netherlandish School
16th century
Christ and the Centurion
8 1/4 (diameter) x 7 9/16 inches (209 x 192 mm)
Pen and black ink, pink wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1981.37
Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.
Notes
Watermark: None.
Inscriptions/Markings
Indecipherable old inscription on verso of paper used for repair (fragment of a letter?), in brown ink; numbered on mount at lower left, in graphite, "No ["o" superscript] 20".=581 \\ 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. 15, no. 24, repr.
Associated names
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 258 (Flemish School, late 16th century)
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